Top Misunderstood Quotes Collection

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Image of David Benatar
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
- David Benatar
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Image of Naoko Takeuchi
Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
- Naoko Takeuchi
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Image of Baroness Orczy
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
- Baroness Orczy
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Image of W. D. Richter
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
- W. D. Richter
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Image of Keith Devlin
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).
- Keith Devlin
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Image of Stella Benson
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
- Stella Benson
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Image of George Coyne
Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.
- George Coyne
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Image of Yasser Seirawan
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
- Yasser Seirawan
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Image of Pattiann Rogers
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.
- Pattiann Rogers
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Image of Chilly Gonzales
A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.
- Chilly Gonzales
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Image of Alan Greenspan
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
- Alan Greenspan
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Image of Tina Howe
The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.
- Tina Howe
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Image of Douglas Crockford
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
- Douglas Crockford
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Image of Amy Koppelman
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
- Amy Koppelman
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Image of Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
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Image of Linda Hoaglund
All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.
- Linda Hoaglund
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Image of John Mayer
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
- John Mayer
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Image of Oscar Wilde
I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Lin Yutang
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.
- Lin Yutang
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Image of Oscar Wilde
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Al Pacino
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
- Al Pacino
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Image of Oscar Wilde
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
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Image of Neal Shusterman
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
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Image of Thomas Bernhard
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
- Thomas Bernhard
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Image of Bill Watterson
I'm a misunderstood genius.
- Bill Watterson
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Image of Ronald Reagan
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Irvine Welsh
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
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Image of Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
- Jose Raul Capablanca
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Image of Joseph Campbell
The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of Joseph Campbell
Religon is misunderstood mythology
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
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
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Image of Joseph Campbell
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be gret is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Jonathan Safran Foer
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great, you must be misunderstood
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Stephen Fry
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Stephen Fry
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Criss Jami
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Billy Graham
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Woody Harrelson
Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
- Woody Harrelson
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Image of Richard Bach
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
- Richard Bach
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Image of Rudyard Kipling
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Image of Christian Bale
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
- Christian Bale
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Image of Jack London
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
- Jack London
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