“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
“As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.”
“Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.”