“I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood.”
“Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?”
“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”