Top 100 Quotes About Confusion
#1. Jargon live in the swamps. They feed on attention. If they can't get that, they'll settle for fear and confusion. ... A little Jargon doesn't look like much. Some people even keep them as pets. But they form packs, and they are very dangerous.
Carlos Bueno
#2. Expertise is moot if confusion is not mitigated ...
Garrett McCoy
#3. No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.
Ammon Shea
#4. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
Bergen Evans
#5. Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.
Jeff Hawkins
#6. Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.
Geralin Thomas
#7. As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation, but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.
Adolf Hitler
#8. The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
Blaise Pascal
#9. Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
Richard Bausch
#10. If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
Andre Malraux
#11. Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.
Simon Blackburn
#12. Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#13. And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
Lesley Gore
#14. I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
Stephen Spender
#15. When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
Rita Mae Brown
#16. Confusion. Twentysomethings like Ian were raised
Meg Jay
#17. Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
Karen Armstrong
#18. Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.
Connor Franta
#19. Something which can make us the same... is what do we use to put somebody in confusion and what does they use to put someone in confusion?
Deyth Banger
#20. Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion ...
Mason Cooley
#21. It was a world I'd never been to and yet had known was there all along, one I'd staggered to in sorrow and confusion and fear and hope. A world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been.
Cheryl Strayed
#22. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#23. Any place where we have hardened our hearts or refused to let truth touch and transform that part of us, there will be confusion.
Lysa TerKeurst
#24. I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah
#25. All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
#26. I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
Kelly Gallagher
#27. Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
Henry Villard
#28. Imagine if Isobel comes out with a weiner though." Jack added wistfully, with a look on his face full of genuine wonder and confusion.
Lucy Louise
#29. We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
#30. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
Jennifer Capriati
#31. Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
William Congreve
#32. In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.
Van Morrison
#33. It wasn't him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.
Tomasz Chrusciel
#34. It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.
Thomas Paine
#35. The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.
Dennis Merzel
#36. I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Jason Calacanis
#37. I think spring is inside me. I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. I have to force myself to act normally. I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something ...
Anne Frank
#38. Confused? Confusion is good. It's an excellent place to learn something new from.
Henna Inam
#39. The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.
Albert Einstein
#40. The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
Adyashanti
#41. Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
Donald Davidson
#44. Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#45. But as Nik's lips moved to hers she could feel him kissing away the betrayal, the confusion, the pain, until all that was left were Nik and Georgia, finally together. And it felt like this time, it would be forever.
Julie Fison
#46. He pulled back, staring at her in the dim carriage, his brows still knit. "Megs?"
Oh, right. She still hadn't told him. Well, it was his own fault; his mouth was simply delicious.
"I love you," she said, speaking clearly so that there might be no confusion.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#47. Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges" - a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.
Thomas Sowell
#48. An orgy, as he imagined it, must be something completely anarchic and joyful, in which the feeling of possession no longer existed, just pleasure and confusion.
Paulo Coelho
#49. Al was looking at me in disbelief. "Not your lover?"
"No."
"But he is Rachel candy," Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.
Kim Harrison
#50. As we awaken we move from a realm of confusion to one of certainty and Peace.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#51. I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.
Margaret D. Klein
#52. circumstances - not necessarily in holiness and radiant light, but often in confusion among people with deep problems.
Tim Stafford
#53. We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.
Ronald Coase
#54. Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.
Steven Erikson
#55. I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.
Nina Garcia
#56. The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
Van Morrison
#57. Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
Brandon Boyd
#58. The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.
Nino Cerruti
#59. Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#60. Hurt and confusion mixing with anger to form a dangerously flammable cocktail.
Miranda Dickinson
#61. Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant
#62. Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.
Julia Cameron
#63. Leviathan simply twists those words as well, creating even greater misunderstanding in an ever-increasing cycle of chaos, confusion, frustration and
Robert Hotchkin
#64. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!
Mehek Bassi
#65. To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
Janet Jackson
#66. For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but what we see?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#67. It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.
Jan Struther
#68. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
Sri Aurobindo
#69. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
#70. The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's.
Jay Woodman
#71. The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.
Rutledge Etheridge
#72. The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.
Frederick Lenz
#73. None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which have resulted are due to men's coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.
Watchman Nee
#74. It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.
from Lo Siento
Marcy Sheiner
#75. For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
John Podhoretz
#76. With great power often comes great confusion.
Dan Allen
#77. Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
Pema Chodron
#78. He looked surprised, as if he were not used to such praise, but surely he must be, Tessa thought in confusion. Surely everyone who knew him knew how lucky they were.
Cassandra Clare
#79. The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
Elizabeth Goudge
#80. The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.
Samuel Beckett
#81. Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
Leo Buscaglia
#82. If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].
Edward Albee
#83. Burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.
Donald Miller
#84. Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.
Mooji
#86. I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#87. In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
Reggie Watts
#88. Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.
Tony Evans
#89. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
#90. We lived in the confusion that mounted the globe, though underneath.
Bradley J. Milton
#91. Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
H.L. Mencken
#92. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.
Joel-Peter Witkin
#93. A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.
Beth Moore
#94. Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
Samuel R. Delany
#95. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
#96. Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
Charles De Lint
#97. What would happen if we withdrew? ... After the enormous expenditure which we have incurred in freeing this country from the withering despotism of the Turk, to hand it back to anarchy and confusion, and to take no responsibility for its development would be an act of folly and quite indefensible.
Janet Wallach
#98. People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
John Lennon
#99. Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.
Kirby Clements
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