Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The president can talk at a very high level of abstraction that is sometimes misinterpreted when it is applied in concrete situations.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

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.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around, so they don't ask again. And let's be honest here, people. English is not a doctor's first language.

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.