Confusion Quotes
1081 Confusion quotes by 813 unique authors
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and…
— Thomas Browne
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The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is…
— Saul Alinsky
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
— Robert Frost
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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier.…
— Richard Marcinko
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I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be,…
— Peter Steele
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible…
— Max Ehrmann
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and…
— M R DeHaan
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Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused.…
— Laozi
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
— Laozi
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Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and…
— Khalil Gibran
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
— John Milton
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. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is…
— Iris Murdoch
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Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely;…
— Henry Van Dyke
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line…
— David Hilbert
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The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
— Blaise Pascal
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
— Aristotle
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He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind…
— Unknown Author
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great…
— Ambrose Bierce
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
— Edward Adam Strecker
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
— Adrienne Rich
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The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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