Source: The Instructions
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy.”
Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556245/Understanding_Being_misunderstood_by_someone_is_vexation.html
“What we hate, what we fear, is being ignored.”
On the fears of MPs.
Source: "Labour's cleaning up on the council tax", 21 April 2005, p. 24.
“Being misunderstood is the measure of an artist, being understood is the measure of a man.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”
Source: The Fry Chronicles
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
