Puzzling Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love… — Leo Buscaglia
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics… — Carl Jung
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil… — Chen-Ning Yang
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations.… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born… — Garry Kasparov
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -… — J. Allen Hynek
After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling… — Jerome Clark
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men… — Karl Popper
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western… — Mikhail Gorbachev
We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab… — Larry Crabb
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you canâ€™t quite speak the language, and you donâ€™t… — Pico Iyer
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is… — Maxfield Parrish
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is… — Jonathan Clements
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling… — Robert M. Pirsig

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