Confucius Quotes

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.