Finnish Proverb Quotes

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

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

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

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.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

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

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

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

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

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

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

I like being misunderstood.

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

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

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

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

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.

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

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.