#understood

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 am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#correct #greatly #i #i am #idiots

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

— Ed Belfour

#i #i can #misunderstood #really #sometimes

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#i #music #never #people #play

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#enough #hard #i #never #parties

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ↗

— Brian Cox

#art #astonishing #because #color #director

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

#inventions #language #mass #most #our

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#heads #i #metal #never #school

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it! ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#character #dharma #having #i #into

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite