#stood

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

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

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! ↗

— Burt Ward

#always #bat #dramatically #effect #fists

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#correct #greatly #i #i am #idiots

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. ↗