Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"Fame is a form of misunderstanding."
Misunderstanding quotes
Misunderstanding
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings."
Italo Svevo
Novelist
"Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"A mutual misunderstanding."
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"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other."
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"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."
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"Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings."
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"Life is but a series of misunderstandings."
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"Some misunderstandings are hard to cure."
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"The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him."
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