Misunderstood Quotes

379 quotes by 313 authors

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but… — Criss Jami
It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with… — Anton du Beke
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. — Ed Belfour
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying… — Kid Cudi
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood. — Stanley Clarke
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can… — Terry Gross
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish… — Philip Yancey
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the… — Walker Evans
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this… — Shirin Neshat
I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When… — Sidney Jourard
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. — Walter Sickert
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood. — Napoleon Bonaparte
History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual… — Criss Jami
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be… — Criss Jami
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. — Alan Greenspan
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and,… — Alan Cumming
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. — Willem Dafoe

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