Puzzling Quotes

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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will… — Albert Schweitzer
While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts. — Frederic Dan Huntington
The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player, — Frank Vogel
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
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and… — Richard Bach
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it. — George Eliot
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from… — Elwyn Brooks White
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — Thomas Browne
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here… — Richard Leakey
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification… — Amy Waldman
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. — Queen Elizabeth II
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all… — Oliver Heaviside
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the… — Ernst Gombrich
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children… — Alison Gopnik
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors… — Billy Joel

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