Understood Quotes - Page 4

To understand and be understood is to be free.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

I like being misunderstood.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

A God you understood would be less than yourself.

OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Miracle is a misunderstood reality.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.