Misunderstood Quotes

379 quotes by 313 authors

That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone… — Anne Bishop
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go… — Oswald Chambers
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. — Richard Bach
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H. L. Mencken
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not? — Howard Stern
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out… — Marianne Fredriksson
Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in… — Willa Cather
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that… — Ira Gershwin
Each work has to pass through these stagesâ€”ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. — Swami Vivekananda
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. — Stephen Covey
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. — Stephen Fry
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others — Oscar Wilde
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a… — Joan Bauer
I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all.… — Richelle Mead
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — William Shakespeare
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own â€”â€ â€œThatâ€™s… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. — Hugh Prather

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