Porter Goss Quotes

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

It is not confused. We are.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

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

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

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

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

The 'Celeb Juice' job was never mine - people just guessed - but it was quite funny to watch the rumours.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

I have always been communicative. I can't help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don't like straight answers.

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.