"Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood."
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
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"What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like."
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"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it."
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"If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood."
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"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
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"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
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"we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
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"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about."
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"Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore."
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"When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead."
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"... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply."
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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"
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"The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange."
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"Religon is misunderstood mythology"
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"My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body."
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"We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence."
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"There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack."
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"Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind."
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