I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ~Robert McCloskey
It is better to understand little, than to misunderstand a lot. ~Anatole France
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken
place. ~George Bernard Shaw
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything
gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I
don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other. ~Marcel Duchamp
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. ~Unknown
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself. ~Edie Sedgwick quotes
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster