Misunderstood Quotes
Misunderstood Quote of the day
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.
Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
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.
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.
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
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.
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
These, too, 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.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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.
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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.
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
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.
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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.
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.
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.