Muddled Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide…
— Erwin Stengel
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch…
— Jacques Maritain
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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
— Albert Einstein
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Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it…
— Freeman Dyson
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Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
— John Maynard Smith
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well.…
— Casey Affleck
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Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on…
— Buddhadasa
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as…
— Zadie Smith
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If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.
— Dale Carnegie
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Truth and dreams are always getting muddled,
— David Almond
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
— Lesley Howarth
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or…
— Damian Thompson
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who…
— Yann Martel
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Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes…
— Zhuangzi
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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that we…
— Toby Hemenway
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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,…
— Carl Sagan
Who Wrote These Muddled Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 51 Muddled Quotes, led by these top contributors: