Perplexity Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out… — Margaret Oliphant
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil… — William Wordsworth
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. — Khalil Gibran
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind… — Brian Greene
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,… — Jose Saramago
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save… — Ellen G. White
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way,… — Willa Cather
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons… — W. Somerset Maugham
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… — George MacDonald
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a… — Nikolai Gogol
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. Itâ€™s natural in times of great… — Kate Morton
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. — John Dewey
The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the man of courage has no fear. — Confucius

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