Top 88 Often Misunderstood Quotes
#1. 'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
Woody Harrelson
#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
#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
#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
#5. I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
Bill Cosby
#6. I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
Penn Jillette
#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
#8. We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Oscar Wilde
#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
#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
#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
#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
#14. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#15. Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#16. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.
Edie Sedgwick
#17. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
Douglas Crockford
#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
#19. For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.
Ryan Holmes
#20. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#21. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.
Tina Howe
#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
#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
#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
#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
#27. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#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
#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
#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
#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
#32. I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood.
D.L. Roan
#33. Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
Christian Bale
#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
#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
#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
#37. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
Jack London
#38. ...misunderstood and forgotten, you have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#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
#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
#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
#42. Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Norman MacCaig
#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
#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
#46. Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
Rick Smolan
#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
#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
#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
#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
#51. Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.
Eva Sloan
#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
#53. Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.
Joyce Rachelle
#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
#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
#57. Creation requires sacrifice and when it is finished it is embraced by a few but misunderstood and rejected by many.
Christ John Otto
#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
#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
#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
#61. It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth
#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
#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
#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
#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
#66. We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.
Vijay Dhameliya
#67. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
Criss Jami
#68. Indigos often feel misunderstood by others, which can lead to feelings of loneliness. Charles:
Doreen Virtue
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#74. The 'bad guys' are the ones who are often misunderstood
Matt Myklusch
#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
#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
#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
#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
#80. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
Criss Jami
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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