#misunderstanding

I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets. ↗

— Shawn Michael Severud

#kindness #life #love #misunderstanding #life

Misunderstanding kills the person who claimed it & scratches the mirror of his life & leaves specks on his soul. ↗

— Behnam Rajabpoor

#life

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

You know, I can't stop thinking about you. Oh really? Why you so obsessed about me? Because..you're so full of shit yet still alive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#overconfidence #obsession

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#abu #against #al #apply #between

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. ↗

— Andre Gide

#misunderstanding #most #quarrels

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#art #human #limitations #logic #misunderstanding