33 Quotes About Misinterpretation

"When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships."

"There will be times in your life when you need to remain low key. Not everyone needs to know everything about you. Not everyone deserves to know the real you. If they want to criticise you for who they think you are, then let them make that mistake. But you’re not responsible for their thoughts."

"To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted."

"It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, demonstrates in painful if inadvertently hilarious detail that this does not mean that works of art are immune from - that they are not in fact often subject to—wild and perverse misinterpretation."

"Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self.The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words."

"This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First."

"It's a waste to always act what you feel without saying it. Action is louder than words, often too loud and turns to be misinterpreted."

"If you play devil's advocate with political correctness, you'll get the horns - deliberate misinterpretation leading to you being fully demonized."

"Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings."