Top 42 Confounds Quotes
#1. Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis Of Assisi
#2. The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
Lord Acton
#3. As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#4. Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Francis Of Assisi
#7. An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.
Roger Williams
#8. Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.
John Armstrong
#9. Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.
Keith Donohue
#10. The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.
Evan Osnos
#11. The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
Ezra Taft Benson
#13. One's nature comes from within, not from without. The abomination occurs in subverting one's instinct in favor of a rigid code written by others. Trying to force yourself into a role that confounds your spirit will always break you.
Garth Stein
#15. Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford
#16. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. Is it acting a true vocation? ... I say it is a gift ... And fame? Neither sought nor expected ... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason ... I am so very delighted that it did happen ... I would not have missed it for the world ...
Ruth Cracknell
#18. Fortune confounds the wise,
And when they least expect it turns the dice.
John Dryden
#19. Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
William Hazlitt
#20. Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.
Cristina Garcia
#22. I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
William Shakespeare
#23. Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? Aye, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
William Shakespeare
#24. Naked Mr. America, burning frantic with self bone love, screams out: My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight!
William S. Burroughs
#25. Sometimes the amount of stupid in this world confounds me. I swear some of these citizens are evolving backwards.
Charlie Cochet
#26. Which scientific puzzle confounds the genius of Hawking? "Women," he said. "They are a complete mystery.
John M. Gottman
#27. Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
Edwin Muir
#28. Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
Stephan Pastis
#29. One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
#30. Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.
Alexandra Katehakis
#31. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. 'Tis Iron - that I know - not gold.
Herman Melville
#32. Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Francis Of Assisi
#33. A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
Anne Truitt
#34. Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
Francis Of Assisi
#35. Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael
#36. Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You.
Joan Campbell
#37. Passion is a sickness. It confounds and makes you do things just to please the other person. Quite different from love. In love you find delight despite the person's flaws.
Cristiane Serruya
#38. Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Joseph Joubert
#39. God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#41. China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.
Kenneth Fisher
#42. My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
Tom Tomorrow
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