Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

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

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

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

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.