“Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.”
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Elias Canetti 43
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… 1905–1994Related quotes

“It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.”
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding”
Variant: Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

“Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.”

“We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.”
Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
Book VIII, Chapter II, 24
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

“In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4

Source: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton http://books.google.com/books?id=9_m6AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Half+the+trouble+about+the+modern+man+is+that+he+is+educated+to+understand+foreign+languages+and+misunderstand+foreigners%22&pg=PA322#v=onepage (1936)