“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
Clarence Darrow
“Is it so bad 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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding”
Chinese Proverbs
“I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said”
Alan Greenspan
“I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.”
Dusty Springfield
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft
