Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I like being misunderstood.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

An easy solution for many controversies may be found as long as we are able to be on our guard for the same words being used with conflicting meanings by different authors.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such anxiety that I almost can't make it through the movie.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.