Misunderstood Quotes - Page 12

• Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

  Henry Ford

  Past, Library, Wish

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• ... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Memories, Past, People

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• I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

  Shane Meadows

  Kids, Forgotten

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• Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Speech, Prophet, Companion

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• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Ideas, Feelings, Bugs

  "Tavi Gevinson may take over the world while you read this". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2013.

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• A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• 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; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Teacher, Rap, Hero

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• The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Order, Years

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• Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Grace

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• The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Second Best, Thirds, Best Things

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Girl, Dream, Upset

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that. I think most of the time people read my work in the way I intend.

  Liza Johnson

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

  Herbert

  Intelligent, Men, Pigs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Tv Shows, Ivy, League

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Hints, Envious

  Max Lucado (2006). “Everyday Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, Thomas Nelson

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• We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

  Keith Devlin

  Facts, Used, Mathematician

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• I think that Mormonism as a whole has been misunderstood. So, I think, it's neat that people just get to learn a little bit more about what our faith is about and what we believe in.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Order, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Artist, Comfort, Appreciated

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• I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

  Corey Dillon

  Men, Thinking

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• Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Character, Men

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• To be great, you must be misunderstood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people, a number of artists, who were taking it very seriously and doing very imaginative work with Instagram as the medium.

  Stephen Shore

  Artist, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Strong, Use, Importance

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