Muddled Quotes

51 Muddled quotes by 48 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
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
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
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
If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. — Dale Carnegie
Truth and dreams are always getting muddled, — David Almond
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
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — Lesley Howarth
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
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
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
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
Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living — Elisabeth Elliot
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
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
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
You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others… — Ninette de Valois
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. — Marya Mannes
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites.… — Criss Jami
Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get… — Charlotte Rampling
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient… — Emmet Fox

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