Misunderstood Quotes

• 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 the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Believe, Acceptance

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.40, Crossing Press

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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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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  Karl Popper

  Communication, Way, Impossible

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.29, Routledge

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• I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

  Dusty Springfield

  Honest, Persons, Knows

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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, Care

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

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• we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

  Oscar Wilde

  Understood

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

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• If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Ifs

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinker, Being Misunderstood, Deep Thinker

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

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

  Erica Jong

  People, Facts, Fame

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

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• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Understanding, Silent

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• We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.

  Steven Harrison

  Thinking, Confusion, Answers

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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, Hell, Ifs

  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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• The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

  Tina Howe

  Tools, Crafts, May

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• I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Bridges, Creating

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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• Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

  Ameesha Patel

  Mistake, Heart, Differences

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• The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, People, Way

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• Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

  Neal Shusterman

  Three, Affliction, Mental Illness

  "Five questions for Neal Shusterman". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. March 9, 2015.

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• I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Simple, People

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Canon, Historian

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

  Anatole Broyard

  Punishment, Possibility, Disturbed

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• No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Society, Dialogue

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• An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Power, Order

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• Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Feels, Excluded

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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