Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

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

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

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

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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

Hold on. It’s not a fight. It’s a discussion.