Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
1988 speech, as quoted in The New York Times, October 28, 2005.
Sometimes misquoted as: "If I have made myself clear, I've misspoken."
1980s
“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”
Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: Self Reliance
Context: 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.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Ghosts and Other Lectures
“Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time”
Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night
Page 179
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.
1980s
Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) Polish novelist and painter
“The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/sanatorium/sanatorium1.htm <br class="br">His father, Living things
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2