“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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.- Copy
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“ Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ”
- Karl Popper- Copy
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“ I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. ”
- Pope Boniface VIII- Copy
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“ No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Francois Truffaut- Copy
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“ The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen. ”
- Diane Abbott- Copy
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“ I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost… ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight… that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon. ”
- William Gaddis- Copy
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“ To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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