Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had be...
CLARENCE DARROW ...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like ...
UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN Everything is a theory and you are blind to comprehend it, and reality is nothing but an illusion.
ANONYMOUS BEING It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
JEROME CADY She was a critical thinker and she had an open mind. In addition to being a critical thinker, she wa...
GARY PERNELL It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
TERRY GROSS The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.
DAVID M. KELLEY The response was excellent. We expected no more than 30,000. People are tired of being afraid.
LUIS IBARRA The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.
ADAM LEVIN I live in fear of not being misunderstood
OSCAR WILDE He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
OSCAR WILDE there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
BRAD MELTZER The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY I like being misunderstood.
LIL WAYNE Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
KATHRYN SCHULZ Don’t be afraid of being yourself, but be afraid of being somebody else.
BEN TOLOSA Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Part of living in a free society is accepting that no idea is beyond being challenged or ridiculed, ...
JAMIE BARTLETT I'm so used to being misunderstood.
JAMAICA KINCAID There is nothing wrong with being afraid---but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be ...
BOBBY DARIN Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
PAT RILEY (Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)
RAINBOW ROWELL The blind meet more 'Angels' than every other being.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL The key in being successful in life, is not being afraid of failure.
JOHN R LUIS Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding
CHINESE PROVERBS The most unbearable thing is being misunderstood by your loved ones.
NISHI DE SILVA I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
ERICH SEGAL Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed,...
MICHEL FABER There are too many conservatives who are terrified of being labelled. They're afraid of being la...
TOMI LAHREN I can find no more satisfaction than that of being misunderstood or strongly disliked for unknown re...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
JENNIFER HARRISON I'm afraid of being alone,
JODIE FOSTER Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.
ADAM SILVERA [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!
DJ KHALED You think you can be misunderstood, try being God.
NEIL SUTTON The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
JEAN COCTEAU Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
DAN RATHER If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.
JEANETTE CORON Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.
ABHIJIT NASKAR being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
SIMONE ELKELES Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitc...
TY COBB The value within every successful birth of a human being. Is more than anything else on this world, ...
LEBOGANG MARUMO I shouldn't be afraid of my fears but be afraid of being afraid of my fears because if I fail I want...
RILEY MICHARD No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism th...
WALTER KAUFMANN Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are no...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of b...
INGRID NEWKIRK In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
GREGORY MAGUIRE An individual who likes to be alone and relies himself more than anybody else in this world is quite...
CHANDRABABU V.S. When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he...
MILAN KUNDERA The punishment a person usually gets for being ahead of his time is suffering.
APURVA GAGLANI My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITT In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
ROY HATTERSLEY A deep thinker but very modest,
JOHN NAGLE Being
infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. I...
HOLLY BLACK I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
DAVID MAMET Being friendless is more viable than having friends of skeptical personalities,
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) I'm afraid of nothing except being bored
GRETA GARBO The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
EDWIN H. LAND An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
EDWIN LAND I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
BARBARA HERSHEY being emotional is good, being sentimental is not bad,being empathetic is nice but more than that be...
SNEHA GEORGE The Answer is that I am afraid
...
Afraid of Connection with human beings
Afrai...
DEYTH BANGER I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
THOM FILICIA I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
ISABELLE ADJANI Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved.
HJALMAR SöDERBERG Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.
MICHELLE OBAMA Presence is more than just being there.
MALCOLM FORBES I've always been afraid that someone would steal my identity some day and be more successful at bein...
NEIL LECKMAN There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.
CHARLES MORGAN Frank Schirrmacher's passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich ...
HUBERT BURDA The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existenc...
A. W. TOZER He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
ADOLF LOOS Write not to be understood; write to not be misunderstood
RALPH DOWNEY III Love is more afraid of change than destruction
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair.
G. ADAM STANISLAV Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
TYLER OAKLEY He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.
DAVIS BUNN Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.
AVA DELLAIRA More than being humans, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we need compassi...
NURUDEEN USHAWU For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever ...
CHAD STAHELSKI Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
ISABELLE ADJANI Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
PAUL DAVID TRIPP It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At the very core of every human being is the deep need to both love and be loved. Remember this in a...
DONNA M THOMAS Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.
LOUISE L. HAY
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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