#misunderstood

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

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

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#films #joy #means #misunderstood #other

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#because #been #father #filtered #like

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#cruelly #ever #history #maligned #misunderstood

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#being #being misunderstood #danger #day #hurry

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

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

#anger #canadians #dynamic #friends #go

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