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To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My greatest fear is to be misunderstood. -- Elliott Gould
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. -- Norman MacCaig
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. -- Ed Belfour
I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood. -- Tracy Morgan
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. -- Karl Popper
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. -- Francois Truffaut
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. -- Jeff Bezos
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. -- William Howard Taft
There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview. -- Dean Wareham
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
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected. -- John Bytheway
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To be gret is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great, you must be misunderstood -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. -- Jeff Bezos
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. -- Matthew Collings
Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. -- Edgar Saltus
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. -- Jeff Bezos
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood. -- Stella Benson
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood. -- Regina Spektor
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood. -- David Benatar
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves. -- Oswald Chambers
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference. -- Kanye West
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
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
I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist. -- Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
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
The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified. -- Carl Van Vechten
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte. -- David Harsanyi
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. -- Kid Cudi
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. -- Lewis Carroll
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
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance. -- Henry David Thoreau
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character. -- George Pelecanos
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
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it. -- Seth Godin
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. -- Jeff Bezos
Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. 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
Differences give rise to disagreements, and the combination of these disagreements can give rise to even greater misunderstandings. As a result, sometimes people are unfairly criticized. This goes without saying. It's not much fun to be misunderstood or criticized, but rather a painful experience that hurts people deeply. -- Haruki Murakami
In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment. -- Michael Crichton
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say. -- William A. Dembski
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. -- Katharine Graham
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. -- Jean Cocteau
If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. -- Alan Greenspan
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them. -- Bill Cosby
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. -- Alan Greenspan
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
I'm so misunderstood! -- Cate Blanchett
I like being misunderstood. -- Lil Wayne
I'm a misunderstood genius. -- Bill Watterson
Religon is misunderstood mythology -- Joseph Campbell
Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Miracle is a misunderstood reality. -- Akiane Kramarik
Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. -- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
I'm so used to being misunderstood, -- Jamaica Kincaid
I'm so used to being misunderstood. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood -- John Mayer
Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy. -- Ravi Zacharias
I live in terror of not being misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood. -- Corey Dillon
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood. -- Lily Allen
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. -- Douglas Crockford
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. -- Brigitte Bardot
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others -- Oscar Wilde
I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot -- Macy Gray
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. -- Terry Gross
Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy. -- Woody Harrelson
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten -- George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. -- Dusty Springfield
I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored -- Adam Levine
I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. -- Bill Watterson
I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football. -- Nick Saban
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood. -- Hugh Bonneville
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood. -- Andy Serkis
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value. -- Joyce Rachelle
I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash. -- Penn Jillette
fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people. -- Erica Jong
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. -- Sarah Hall
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life. -- Amy Koppelman
I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood. -- Isaac Parker
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized. -- Ryan Holmes
Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. -- Simone Elkeles
Football players are misunderstood. They arent the dumb jocks people think they are. -- Simone Elkeles
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth -- Yasser Seirawan
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. -- Gloria Steinem
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. -- Stephen Fry
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. -- Kirk Hammett
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage. -- Oscar Wilde
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with. -- Lin Yutang
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. -- Paul Lockhart
I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. -- Sara Sheridan
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth. -- Christian Bale
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. -- Tavi Gevinson
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films. -- Bill Forsyth
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. -- Mae West
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. -- William James
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. -- James Thurber
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. -- Pattiann Rogers

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