"A man's bewilderment is the measure of his…" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom."
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish…
— Frank Moore Colby
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
— Rumi
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we…
— Stephen Levine
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment –…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of…
— Sakyong Mipham
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We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or…
— Laurence Binyon
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise…
— Plato
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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and…
— Al-Ghazali
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