Confusion Quotes

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.