“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
“Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding”
Chinese Proverbs
“To understand something complex one must have the knowledge to know something deeper than the concept of assumption.”
Tyler J. Hebert
“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
Clarence Darrow
“I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said”
Alan Greenspan