Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

All human relationships are based on misunderstandings.

Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy.

I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other’s error and nobody discerns his own.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

The fact that people don’t get along all the time suggests that we don’t understand or value the ways other people see the world. A

you humans are a lonely lot of folks. You never have known your fellow-man. You can’t know him because you haven’t the common touch of understanding that makes it possible to know him. You have friendships, sure, but those friendships are based on pure emotions, never on real understanding. You get along together, sure. But you get along by tolerance rather than by understanding. You work out your problems by agreement, but that agreement is simply a matter of the stronger-minded among you beating down the opposition of the weaker ones.” “What’s

I feel that now I can’t always reach an understanding with someone, especially with people of an older generation. I find it difficult in this situation, because they think differently. Naturally, people cannot think alike, but they must understand each other. That's why they are people.

The most important thing is that we would like people to reach some kind of mutual understanding, so that these huge mixed nationalities, religions, social order, finally understand each other, if possible ... And then everything would fall into place, and there are no more desires would not be.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

To sit with one another and understand that although you may not always agree, you look beyond right and wrong to try and understand one another.

One of the root causes of miscommunication is that people do not always mean what they say or do.