Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?
Shannon L. AlderTags: perception pain questions self-esteem perspective anger ego self-improvement misunderstandings overthinking misinterpretation misunderstand reading-into-everything reading-into-things second-quessing
When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships.
Sarah RaynerTags: relationships angst misinterpretation
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self.
The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
Tags: misunderstanding misinterpretation
The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: interpretation misunderstanding misinterpretation subtext
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.
The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.
The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.
I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!
Tags: misinterpreted ignorance deep-thoughts humor-inspirational misinformation ignoring-issues two-sides-to-the-story judgmentality richard-feynman misinterpretation action-over-thought incapable-of-interpreted incapable-of-understanding
The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding their legalistic forbearance into a necessary frenzy that would allow them to suitably work up a case for one side or the other on how the Law, without the possibility of misinterpretation, states If ABC, then DEF—or for the sake of acknowledging the counterargument first as a courtroom tactic, the case might also be made that the Law states the antithesis of the aforementioned If ABC, then DEF, but gives allowance within reasonable parameters for a provisional XYZ to be granted in exceptional cases. And thus, it was a matter not so much of making one’s case in a clear and logical sense, but one for the lawyers to battle out in the arena of pathos, as it was clearly the emotional pleas that could evoke a sense of sympathy in the courtroom and overturn otherwise painstaking endeavors at using the tools at hand to make pleas based upon incontrovertible facts.
Ashim ShankerTags: contradictions pathos moral-relativism common-good misinterpretation ashim-shanker hollow-systems-of-jurisprudence ambiguities incontrovertible law-and-justice legalistic-forbearance
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