Misunderstood Quotes

379 quotes by 296 authors

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -… — Martin Filler
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. — Bill Watterson
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit… — Thomas Bernhard
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this… — Jonathan Safran Foer
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Baroness Orczy
Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost
Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith,… — R.J. Ellory
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual… — John Lennon
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard
You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal… — Janet Evanovich
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live… — Oscar Wilde
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started… — Jack London
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood — John Mayer
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss

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