 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
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 570 pages
...misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, anil Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure ami wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." How man}' have conversed with Lincoln before and since, and knew him not! homely parables. The story... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 178 pages
...then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall 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. JANUARY 19. —SELF-RELIANCE. We do not know to-day .whether we are busy or idle. In times when we... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood ? " — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, 58 SELF-RELIANCE and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
 | S. E. H. Lockwood - 1903 - 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood ! Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word 1 Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.—Essay on Self-Reliance. HAVING IT MADE UP. Ever since I was a boy I have wished to... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 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 his unhesitating self-reliance.... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 358 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you will 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." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 348 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you will 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." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
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