Puzzlement Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American…
— Michael Parenti
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way…
— Robert Nozick
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those…
— B.F. Skinner
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All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat…
— Al Roker
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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
— Carl Sandburg
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I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you…
— Terry Pratchett
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Reparations,†said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt…
— Cassandra Clare
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And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate…
— Cassandra Clare
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He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—†explained the magus. “But surely—†“—and then we were robbed on…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.
— Cleo
Who Wrote These Puzzlement Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Puzzlement Quotes as follows: