Baffling Quotes

44 Baffling quotes by 38 unique authors

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. — Herb Caen
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — Unknown Author
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. — Walker Percy
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she… — William Crookes
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and… — Dean Koontz
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,… — Christine Schutt
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. — Niklaus Wirth
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there… — David Chalmers
Early youth is a baffling time — Bruce Catton
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil… — John T. Flynn
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what… — Prince Charles
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep… — George Washington Carver
Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or… — Theda Skocpol
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.… — Walter Isaacson
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most… — William James
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it. — Carl Sandburg
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The… — Gore Vidal
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading… — Denise Mina
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't… — Gerhard Richter
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would… — Lukas Foss
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of… — Philip Guston
In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action — Winston Churchill

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