“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
Self-degradation
“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Source: Every Day
Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) lyricist
Bewitched http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/rodgershart/Bewitched.htm (1940)
“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
Source: New Selected Poems
“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Serge Lang (1927–2005) mathematician
This is part of Lang's campaign in his attempt to discredit the results of The 1977 survey of the American professoriate published in 1979 by Everett C Ladd and Seymour M Lipsett. In 1981 Lang published The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) which consists of copies of correspondence concerning the survey. In this quote from The File Lang sets out why he fought that campaign.