Being Misunderstood Quotes - Page 2

• You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Risk, Misunderstood, Trying

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

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• You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Talking, Ideas, Misunderstood

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

  Irvine Welsh

  Misunderstood, Needs, Goes On

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Misunderstood

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Order, Risk

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• The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Misunderstood, Tragedy, Poet

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Misunderstood, Age, Dull

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

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• 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 shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  Terry Gross

  Misunderstood, Asking, Lines

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• fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

  Erica Jong

  People, Misunderstood, Facts

  Erica Jong (1998). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, Harpercollins

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• 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 believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Knowing, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

  Stephen Fry

  Misunderstood, Complaining, Want

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.287, Soho Press

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• I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.

  Diane Birch

  Loneliness, School, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Angel, Men, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

  Christian Bale

  Misunderstood, Actors, I Know The Truth

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Boys

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• No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

  William Zinsser

  Running, Writing, People

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• SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Smart, Book

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world he's a good guy: ' Like me, I'm nice.' He's a 19 year-old kid. He's a kid struggling with being misunderstood. We've all been misunderstood. That's universal too. I like being Peter.

  Andrew Garfield

  Nice, Struggle, Kids

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• To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

  Ben Marcus

  Circles, People, Misunderstood

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.327, Granta Books

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• If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Misunderstood, Age, Complaining

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• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Misunderstood, Posts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  Terry Gross

  Misunderstood, Sometimes

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