Bewildered Quotes
114 quotes by 99 authors
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
— Alexander Pope
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The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
— Walter Lippmann
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
— John Steinbeck
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are…
— Noam Chomsky
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I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.
— Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand…
— Roger Michell
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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise…
— Laozi
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Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
— John Prine
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We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
— Jane Austen
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I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,…
— H P Lovecraft
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
— Calvin Coolidge
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