Quotes of: Misunderstood Keyword

Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Chinese

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be gr...

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Self Reliance

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Stanley Clarke

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Terry Gross

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Fan Bingbing

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Bill Watterson

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Jamaica Kincaid

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Antony Gormley

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Bill Forsyth

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think ...

Self-Reliance

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

Bill Cosby

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

The Instructions

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Killosophy

Teenagers are complicated and at times stubborn, yes, but we are not dumb. We see the world in a different light than the rest do, and sometimes, we’re misunderstood because of it. And that’s alright. That must be the definition of ‘human being...

Fit In or Fit Out

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Elliott Gould

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

suffering is a misunderstood pain

Haruki Murakami

[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hop...

Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

Norman MacCaig