#misunderstood

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. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Elliott Gould

#greatest #misunderstood

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#fact #fine #i #misunderstood #most

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#being #being misunderstood #had #hell #i

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

#another #back #better #else #good

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

— Katharine Graham

#quite #rich #woman

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#better #comparison #easily #fills #genuine

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. ↗

— James Patterson

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