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Definition of Misunderstanding
Misunderstanding

of Misunderstand

Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.

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Misunderstanding Quotations

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Bob Dylan

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire

Misunderstanding Translations

misunderstanding in Dutch is misverstand
misunderstanding in French is malentendu
misunderstanding in Italian is equivoco
misunderstanding in Portuguese is engano


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