Being Misunderstood Quotes

• Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  dream hampton

  Inspirational, Relationship, People

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

  Austin Kleon

  Names, People, Misunderstood

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing

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• I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Misunderstood, Terror

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Errors, Talking

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

  Dan Brown

  Loneliness, Believe, Reality

  Dan Brown (2013). “Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)”, p.449, Random House

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• Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Errors, Risk

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• 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

  Fate, Misunderstood, Genius

  "Fictional character: Howard Stern". "Private Parts", 1997.

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• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  Clarence Darrow

  Government, Misunderstood, Hell

  As quoted in "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" by Peter McWilliams, from 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996) edited by James A Haught, p. 817,

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• I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

  Fan Bingbing

  Misunderstood, Accustomed

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Misunderstood, Thinker, Deep Thinker

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.181, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Misunderstood, Tragedy, Poetic

  Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 20

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• I'm so used to being misunderstood.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Misunderstood, Used

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• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Attitude, Order, Ideas

  "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Misunderstood, Traits

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• I like being misunderstood.

  Lil Wayne

  Misunderstood

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• Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

  Richard Bach

  Misunderstood, Devil, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Running, Misunderstood, Today

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• I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Knowing, Giving, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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• My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Intelligent, Misunderstood, Needs

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• I'm willing to be misunderstood. I've never had a problem being misunderstood by a portion of people on any particular issue if it makes for that much more of a special experience for those who understand.

  RJD2

  People, Misunderstood, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sunshine, Thinking About You, Doors

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.137, tredition

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• The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning, is believed to be, that it was not suspected that any such charge would ever take place; and it appears that no such charge did take place, during the early period of the Constitution, when the meaning of its authors could be best ascertained, nor until many of the contemporary lights had in the lapse of time been extinguished. How often does it happen, that a notoriety of intention diminishes the caution against its being misunderstood or doubted!

  James Madison

  Light, Misunderstood, Doe

  James Madison (1884). “1816-1828”

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• Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Expression, Choices, Challenges

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