Misunderstood

I don't have anything funny or smart or interesting or thought-provoking to post today (as usual) so I'll just paste something from "The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson" so it looks like I am serving horse radish with my prime rib:

Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, 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 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 got the above from the following link: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/14.htm