Misunderstood Quotes

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which "comes upon you," but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ.

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.