Misunderstood Quotes

379 quotes by 313 authors

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to… — William A. Dembski
To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. — Kirk Hammett
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I… — Jude Law
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at… — Audre Lorde
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's… — Baz Luhrmann
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better… — Felix Mendelssohn
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. — Dominic Monaghan
I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can… — Mike Myers
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual. — Jennifer O'Neill
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. — Karl Popper
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a… — Tori Spelling
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. — Francois Truffaut
I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor. — Aida Turturro
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any… — John W. Vessey, Jr.
I like being misunderstood. — Lil Wayne
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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