Perplexity Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the… — Hannah Arendt
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. — Francois Fenelon
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he… — Confucius
The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation… — John F. Kennedy
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in… — John Henry Newman
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allahâ€™s plans to him â€“ He… — Omar Khayyam
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,… — Blaise Pascal
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we… — Benjamin Franklin
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of… — Tycho Brahe
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged… — Ellen Gustafson
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England… — Thomas B. Macaulay
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle

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