To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
great
category

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
great

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. – Jean Genet

Category:
great

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. – Harry S. Truman

Category:
great

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
great

Random Quotes

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

Category:
Fear

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesnt work, youre a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesnt sound great to me! – Betty White

Category:
Failure

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress. – Sarah Polley

Category:
respect

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Knowledge