Not Being Understood Quotes
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The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.
— Thomas D. Zweifel
Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?
— J.M. Coetzee
This being understood, let us proceed with our history.
— Alexandre Dumas
I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
— Tamara Ecclestone
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
— B. Joseph Pine II
Men ... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.
— John Flanagan
I'm not driven by being understood.
— Kary Mullis
There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
— Brad Meltzer
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.
— Georges Braque
Being that can be understood is language.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
— Remy De Gourmont
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
— Sam Peckinpah
The highest art ... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
— Hermann Hesse
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
— Joseph Conrad
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
— Terence McKenna
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
— Alain De Botton
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
— John Lancaster Spalding
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
— Molly Haskell
Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn't truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love.
— Lynsey Addario
Human is very odd living being. I have not understood anything so far.
— Shankar Lamichhane
Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.
— Donna Goddard
When i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
— Sharon Creech
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
— Jodie Foster
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
— Albert Camus
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
— Stephen Fry
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
— Tara Brach
Seek first to understand before being understood.
— J. Richard Clarke
...Mrs. Percy understood that staying beautiful all day long is the most important aspect of being married...
— Tevin Hansen
Your problem is that you have never fully understood the power of being a desired woman.
— Kyra Davis
Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
My greatness is not dependent on it being understood by others. My greatness lies in the acceptance of none other than myself.
— Denika Carothers
I've never understood why every character being "hot" was necessary for enjoying a TV show.
— Tina Fey
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
— Clarence Darrow
Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness. — Mizuki Nomura
Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.
— Claire Legrand
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
— Kevin Powers
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
— E. M. Forster
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
— Johann Georg Hamann
