#stood

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#brotherhood #everything #good #humanity #i

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#before #dared #darkness #deep #doubting

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. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstood #philosophical

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#genius #misunderstood #genius

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. ↗

— Adam Levin

#fear #misunderstood #betrayal

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #ill #luck #misunderstanding #never

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#election #i #i think #inspiration #john

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#i #i can #misunderstood #really #sometimes

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. ↗

— Michael Behe

#every #function #must #order #process