I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Tags: genius calvin-and-hobbes misunderstood
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
Richard BachTags: misunderstood
The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.
Adam LevinTags: fear betrayal misunderstood
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.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: greatness consistency misunderstood
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss JamiTags: originality faith risk genius determination foolish illusion perseverance fool misunderstood taking-risks brilliance first-impression mistaken geniuses glance mistaken-identity wheels
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss JamiTags: compassion empathy perspective psychology understanding sympathy good brain comprehension cognition development misunderstood misunderstanding bad-people good-people
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.
Criss JamiTags: truth perception man philosophy god heart good positive philosophers bad common-sense theology negative challenge value stress hero misunderstood apologetics ideology positivity righteousness worldview theism negativity righteous greater-good stand-up villain ultimate antagonist anti-hero antihero devalue discourage insufficient protagonist sufficient
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Criss JamiTags: motivational wisdom inspirational strength happiness pain love greatness existence power strong perspective peace god faith will joy hope different suffering endurance shame understanding adversity attitude perseverance character powerful problem misunderstood hardship invincible faithfulness rejoice endure manifest strong-willed mistaken different-perspective manifestation unstoppable-force seeing-things-in-a-different-way unstoppable invincible-will
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.
Criss JamiTags: solitude loneliness human fame popularity lonely slander fortune celebrities misunderstood libel attention emotional psychological misrepresentation introvert misconception naive physical being-yourself facade inability remedy misrepresented
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
Criss JamiTags: originality strange creativity disagreeable unusual misunderstood envy mediocrity intimidation creative odd original awkward outcast mediocre peculiar intimidating
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