Puzzled Quotes
119 quotes by 104 authors
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The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always puzzled me until…
— Milt Jackson
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It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible…
— Raymond Smullyan
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I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to…
— Walter Wriston
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It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of…
— Jean Paul
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You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more…
— Rajneesh
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SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out…
— Cynthia Lennon
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward…
— Paul Harding
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The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
— Noam Chomsky
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The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective…
— Carl Jung
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When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
— Anna Sui
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In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle…
— Antonino Zichichi
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The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another…
— Nicole Kidman
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Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would…
— Anthony de Jasay
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Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact…
— Luc Montagnier
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I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just…
— Walter Lippmann
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For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've…
— Mary Roach
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I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have…
— Mo Yan
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Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into…
— Joy Williams
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The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to…
— Robert A. Heinlein
Who Wrote These Puzzled Quotes
104 authors contributed a total of 119 Puzzled Quotes, led by these top contributors: