Puzzled Quotes

119 quotes by 104 authors

I am really puzzled to understand myself. — Lincoln Steffens
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. — Elbert Hubbard
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. — Richard Livingstone
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled… — Robert Novak
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and… — Henry Fielding
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done… — William Feather
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the… — Charles Krauthammer
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any… — Moby
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled… — Jean Paul
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. — Carl Sandburg
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I… — Wallace Shawn
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was… — Cat Stevens
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"… — Lloyd Alexander
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after… — John Steinbeck
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's… — John le Carre
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose… — Norton Juster
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really… — Barbara Pym
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It… — Dr. Seuss
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham

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