Misunderstood Quotes

To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Important, Made, Again

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society, Others, Talk

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Jude Law

Home, Lonely, Brain

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow

Hell, Understood, Suffered

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Spiritual, Union, Function

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan

Said, Turn, Clear

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Time, Enjoy, Fact

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

Cannot, Impossible, Speak

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

Peace, Writer, Greater

I like being misunderstood.
Lil Wayne

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.
Aida Turturro

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese

Good, Long, Said

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

History, War, American

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
Tori Spelling

Love, Mom, Rather

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

Nothing, Explain, Grown

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Life, Him, Idea

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
John W. Vessey, Jr.

Single, Language, English

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft

Write, Understood

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
Brigitte Bardot

Idiots, Correct, Greatly

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

Words, Sense, Original

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

Person, Honestly, Misquoted

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau

Through, Worst, Tragedy

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers

Love, Great, Anger

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
Katharine Graham

Woman, Rich, Quite

I'm so misunderstood!
Cate Blanchett

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Music, Words, Soul

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Tony Blair

Care, Lives, Public

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
Jennifer O'Neill

Power, Individual, Release

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Norman MacCaig

Anybody, Writes

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