Bewilderment Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to… — Frank Moore Colby
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. — Rumi
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man;… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are… — Stephen Levine
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment Â– one thought or emotion after… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. — Sakyong Mipham
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely… — Laurence Binyon
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from… — Plato
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true… — Miyamoto Musashi
Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic. — Dai Vernon
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void. — Miyamoto Musashi
I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it. — Peter Gizzi
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment. — Rumi
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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