Confusion Quotes

Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.

To be loved is very demoralizing

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

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.

Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.