Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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. ✨ Essays Self-Reliance (1841)
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