There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
