Doe Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

— Simone Weil

“I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.”

— Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

— Stephen Covey

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

— Alain de Botton

The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against…

— Adam Phillips

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

— Jodie Foster

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

— William Feather

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft