Bewilderment Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets… — Karl Philipp Moritz
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor
The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world.… — Noy Holland
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle.… — Ralph P. Martin
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,… — Arthur Koestler
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment… — Khalil Gibran
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. — Freeman Dyson
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing… — Noam Chomsky
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. — Unknown Author
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too… — Jeanette Winterson
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the… — Terry Eagleton
Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no… — Terry Goodkind
Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors. — Tarjei Vesaas
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment — Peter S. Beagle
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had… — E. M. Forster
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain… — Robin Hobb
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in… — Hermann Hesse

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