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Misunderstanding Quotes
"To be great is to be misunderstood. "
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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George Bernard Shaw
"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A failure is not an error"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are"
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Niccolo Machiavelli
"Of all the things which are no longer what they seem"
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Herman Melville
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear"
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Haruki Murakami
"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing"
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Haruki Murakami
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
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Rabindranath Tagore
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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Carl Sagan
"One concept corrupts and confuses the others"
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Jorge Luis Borges
"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."
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Anatole France
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