I Have Suffered A Great Deal From Writers Who Have Quoted This Or That Sentence Of Mine Either Out Of Its Context Or In Juxtaposition To Some Incongruous Matter Which Quite Distorted My Meaning , Or Destroyed It Altogether. - SearchQuotes

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

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