Vernon Howard Quotes

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

It is not confused. We are.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

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

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

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.