Misunderstood Quotes

379 quotes by 313 authors

Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet… — Therese of Lisieux
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have… — Jeff Bezos
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed… — Richard P. Feynman
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable. — Tim Field
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers… — Alan Greenspan
To me, creativity is God. But it will be better if you allow me to change the word god into godliness, because I don`t want… — Rajneesh
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and… — Robert G. Allen
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. — Katharine Graham
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood.… — Spencer W. Kimball
As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important.… — Francis Schaeffer
Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else… — Frank Lowy
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans… — John F. Kennedy
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth — Yasser Seirawan
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten — George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair

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