Misunderstood Quotes

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

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.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

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

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

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

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

I deal with misunderstood aspects of animal behaviour like anxiety and aggression. I teach people how to respect different species and let a dog be a dog.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

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.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.

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.

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

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.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

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.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

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