(35 quotes found)
“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
“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
Clarence Darrow
“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
“A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.”
Will Rogers
“I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.”
Dusty Springfield
“The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood”
“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft
