Top 88 Often Misunderstood Quotes

#1. 'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

Woody Harrelson

Often Misunderstood Quotes #8278
#2. In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

G.K. Chesterton

Often Misunderstood Quotes #8330
#3. It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

Debora Spar

Often Misunderstood Quotes #11866
#4. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

Abraham Lincoln

Often Misunderstood Quotes #13226
#5. I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

Bill Cosby

Often Misunderstood Quotes #18538
#6. I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.

Penn Jillette

Often Misunderstood Quotes #19477
#7. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Richard Hatch

Often Misunderstood Quotes #22512
#8. We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Oscar Wilde

Often Misunderstood Quotes #26907
#9. I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

Richard Dawkins

Often Misunderstood Quotes #27122
#10. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

Kanye West

Often Misunderstood Quotes #43431
#11. To be great, you must be misunderstood

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often Misunderstood Quotes #62995
#12. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

Joni Mitchell

Often Misunderstood Quotes #64493
#13. Love is misunderstood by many.
Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you.
Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

Often Misunderstood Quotes #64936
#14. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Often Misunderstood Quotes #65355
#15. Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Often Misunderstood Quotes #91791
#16. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Edie Sedgwick

Often Misunderstood Quotes #92372
#17. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Douglas Crockford

Often Misunderstood Quotes #93200
#18. Like women in general, like Aries women in particular, like redheaded Aries women in greater particular, she loathed to be misunderstood. Injustice against others outraged her, injustice against herself set her to boiling like brimstone soup.

Tom Robbins

Often Misunderstood Quotes #93280
#19. For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Ryan Holmes

Often Misunderstood Quotes #93835
#20. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Criss Jami

Often Misunderstood Quotes #96802
#21. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

Tina Howe

Often Misunderstood Quotes #100742
#22. Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

David Harsanyi

Often Misunderstood Quotes #100791
#23. It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?".

Paul Banks

Often Misunderstood Quotes #108394
#24. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

Often Misunderstood Quotes #109174
#25. I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Jamaica Kincaid

Often Misunderstood Quotes #110467
#26. Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

W. D. Richter

Often Misunderstood Quotes #111532
#27. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Criss Jami

Often Misunderstood Quotes #113480
#28. Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Bill Cosby

Often Misunderstood Quotes #117518
#29. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #124178
#30. People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

Keegan Bradley

Often Misunderstood Quotes #130514
#31. Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

Steven Sinofsky

Often Misunderstood Quotes #133278
#32. I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood.

D.L. Roan

Often Misunderstood Quotes #138182
#33. Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

Christian Bale

Often Misunderstood Quotes #140431
#34. Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

Karl Popper

Often Misunderstood Quotes #140996
#35. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #142044
#36. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial lite. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of times he obeyed.

Jack London

Often Misunderstood Quotes #142982
#37. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Jack London

Often Misunderstood Quotes #143243
#38. ...misunderstood and forgotten, you have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Often Misunderstood Quotes #146929
#39. All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

Linda Hoaglund

Often Misunderstood Quotes #148737
#40. If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.

Ian Watt

Often Misunderstood Quotes #153007
#41. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!

Mick Lexington

Often Misunderstood Quotes #157700
#42. Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

Norman MacCaig

Often Misunderstood Quotes #158557
#43. When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Philip Yancey

Often Misunderstood Quotes #166620
#44. So if God is forgotten, we want to join God in being forgotten. So if God is rejected and opposed and misunderstood and misrepresented, we want to suffer each indignity and sorrow with God.

Brian D. McLaren

Often Misunderstood Quotes #167994
#45. all monsters were misunderstood.

Tom Franklin

Often Misunderstood Quotes #183352
#46. Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Rick Smolan

Often Misunderstood Quotes #188956
#47. What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

Marilyn Manson

Often Misunderstood Quotes #197183
#48. What I remember is impossible. Against the law of God.' 'Why should you suppose that? You must permit God to grasp His own law rather better than fallible man, who has perhaps misunderstood.

Tanith Lee

Often Misunderstood Quotes #198639
#49. Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Often Misunderstood Quotes #198689
#50. It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
-Hephaestus

Rick Riordan

Often Misunderstood Quotes #198777
#51. Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

Eva Sloan

Often Misunderstood Quotes #205377
#52. Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

George Coyne

Often Misunderstood Quotes #210283
#53. Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle

Often Misunderstood Quotes #215036
#54. I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Clarence Darrow

Often Misunderstood Quotes #216283
#55. To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often Misunderstood Quotes #217742
#56. they are aware of having been misunderstood as children, they feel that the fault lay with them and with their inability to express themselves appropriately.

Alice Miller

Often Misunderstood Quotes #218575
#57. Creation requires sacrifice and when it is finished it is embraced by a few but misunderstood and rejected by many.

Christ John Otto

Often Misunderstood Quotes #220805
#58. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #233676
#59. It's been going on for days now! On and on and on for days! If I hear one more sexual-chemistry-charged and mutually misunderstood argument I'm going to shoot the pair of you!

Dave Stone

Often Misunderstood Quotes #240605
#60. To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

William Alexander Percy

Often Misunderstood Quotes #242855
#61. It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Bill Forsyth

Often Misunderstood Quotes #245111
#62. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #246174
#63. I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Bell Hooks

Often Misunderstood Quotes #336576
#64. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #366006
#65. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #382406
#66. We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.

Vijay Dhameliya

Often Misunderstood Quotes #387002
#67. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Criss Jami

Often Misunderstood Quotes #390862
#68. Indigos often feel misunderstood by others, which can lead to feelings of loneliness. Charles:

Doreen Virtue

Often Misunderstood Quotes #409105
#69. The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

Marco Rubio

Often Misunderstood Quotes #558209
#70. I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

Mary Gaitskill

Often Misunderstood Quotes #560459
#71. 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

Often Misunderstood Quotes #590680
#72. I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

Dalai Lama

Often Misunderstood Quotes #621907
#73. The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

Richard P. Feynman

Often Misunderstood Quotes #625579
#74. The 'bad guys' are the ones who are often misunderstood

Matt Myklusch

Often Misunderstood Quotes #694364
#75. I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.

George Pelecanos

Often Misunderstood Quotes #706614
#76. Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious,

Francine Prose

Often Misunderstood Quotes #731156
#77. Commonly, love isn't defined in the sense that it supposed to be. I find it often to be misunderstood. Love is like a principle, flowing out and in like the seasons. It's an attraction not just built by personal attachment, but by one's very presence.

Lionel Suggs

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#78. Believe. The lack of emphasis Plain People place on evangelism is often misunderstood. Setting an example of a holy life, they feel, makes a better witness than mere talk. Rather than proselytize, the Amish provide practical help when natural disasters strike.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1119887
#79. Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1176939
#80. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Criss Jami

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1203254
#81. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.

Tanith Lee

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#82. Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

Ban Ki-moon

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1285076
#83. He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice's loneliness: it increased.

E. M. Forster

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1319901
#84. As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion ...

J. Gordon Melton

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1397045
#85. I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

George Bernard Shaw

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1585259
#86. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.

Lesley Livingston

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1606074
#87. It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)

John Irving

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1826160
#88. No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Often Misunderstood Quotes #1869200

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