“To be great is 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.”
“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood”
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.”
“I'm a misunderstood genius.""What's misunderstood?""Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”