Confuse Quotes

441 Confuse quotes by 378 unique authors

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. — Yves Saint Laurent
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. — A J Liebling
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. — James A. Michener
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. — Edward R. Murrow
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker. — Judd Nelson
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. — Steven Pinker
It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are… — Nicole Polizzi
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. — Dennis Prager
Don't confuse honours with achievement. — Zadie Smith
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea… — Adlai E. Stevenson
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. — James Surowiecki
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical… — Lewis Thomas
If you can't convince them, confuse them. — Harry S. Truman
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. — Harry S. Truman
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. — Barbara Walters
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan Watts
I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like,… — Joss Whedon
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. — E. O. Wilson
I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles. — Chris Hardwick
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and… — Evgeny Morozov
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving
Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade… — P.G. Wodehouse

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