Quotes on Misunderstanding

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.