 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. I suppose no man...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 23by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | S. E. H. Lockwood - 1901 - 488 pages
...it contradicts everything you said to-diiy. — " Ah, so yon 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. EMERSON'S "Self-Reliance." EXERCISE I % Bring to class from your reading three paragraphs in which... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 488 pages
...it contradicts everything 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. EXERCISE I EMERSON'S "Self-reliance." Bring to class from your reading three paragraphs in which the... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 490 pages
...contradicts everything you said to-day. —" Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — "la it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?" Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be Great is to be misunderstood. EXERCISE I EMERSON'S " Self -Reliance." Bring to class from your reading three paragraphs in which... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 576 pages
...thought of this new vital force which became part of him that day, it was in the terms of Emerson : " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." How many have conversed with Lincoln before and since, and knew him not ! homely parables. The story... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 576 pages
...thought of this new vital force which became part of him that day. it was in the terms of Emerson: " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." How many have conversed with Lincoln before and since, and knew him not ! If an outward and visible... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1901 - 610 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1901 - 604 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 568 pages
...thought of this new vital force which became part of him that day, it was in the terms of Emerson: " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." How many have conversed with Lincoln before and since, and knew him not ! homely parables. The story... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 562 pages
...thought of this new vital force which became part of him that day, it was in the terms of Emerson : " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...took flesh. To be great is to be «misunderstood." How many have conversed with Lincoln before and lince, and knew him not I If an outward and visible... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras2so was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,...took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I hope in these days we have heard the last of con-255 formity and consistency. Let us affront and reprimand... | |
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