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

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
  • I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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

  • 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.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

  • I like being misunderstood.

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

    Source: travel.cnn.com
  • 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 (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions
  • You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

    Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
  • It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  • 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.

    Angel   Men   Black  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
    Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)
  • The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

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

    Attitude   Order   Ideas  
    "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
  • Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

    Thinking   Errors   Risk  
  • 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?

    Men   Order   Risk  
  • 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 (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.137, tredition
  • Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

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

    Nice   Struggle   Kids  
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

    Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
  • What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

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

    "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.
  • 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 (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions
  • I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

    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,
  • 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.

    Military   Army   Boys  
  • 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 (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.327, Granta Books
  • 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 (2013). “Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)”, p.449, Random House
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)
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