Baffled Quotes

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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.