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misunderstood

«Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.»
«Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.»
«Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.»
«. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .»
«Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding»
«Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.»
«But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus»
«Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.»
«An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.»
«As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.»

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