Most Misunderstood Quotes

#1. Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#2. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Douglas Crockford

#3. Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

John Bytheway

#4. 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.

Radclyffe Hall

#5. 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.

John F. Kennedy

#6. The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#7. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

Criss Jami

#9. 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.

George Sand

#10. Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Stanley Clarke

#11. I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Criss Jami

#12. I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Gloria Steinem

#14. I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that. I think most of the time people read my work in the way I intend.

Liza Johnson

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

Yasser Seirawan

#16. I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time.That's fine.

Green Day

#17. Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

Todd English

#18. But I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love.

Karina Halle

#19. Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

Alan Cumming

#20. Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself.

Brian Herbert

#21. 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.

Nas

#22. How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were simply misunderstood.

David Bernstein

#23. Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

Rajneesh

#24. When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Criss Jami

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

Dusty Springfield

#26. All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Guys like this Henry always pushed even the most unfunny joke two steps too far . . . then looked wounded and misunderstood when someone yelled at them. And it was always Wassa matter? and it was Can'tcha take a joke? and it was Why don'tcha lighten up a little?

Stephen King

#28. 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.

Tim Field

#29. Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

Neal Shusterman

#30. 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

#31. The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Matthew Collings

#32. I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

Isaac Parker

#33. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...

Vincent Starrett

#34. Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Howard Stern

#35. Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Sarah Hall

#36. 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.

David Rakoff

#37. You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Claire Danes