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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. "
Sage Advice - Page 32
by Lois Kerr - 1996 - 256 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It ii a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. " I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...the aged ladies, "you shall be sure to be misunderstood." Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 15. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misundersi.CK>37 "[Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by thejaw ofjiis...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. " I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of bis will are rounded in by the law of...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...though it contradict every thing you said to-day. —'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ? It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is t<y be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is aright fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood t Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no-man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye...
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