Quotes with confusion

  • I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

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  • William Shakespeare Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Hybels A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George Santayana Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Henry Miller Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Einstein Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Barry Hannah I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
    Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
    My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
    Source: Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Frank In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top
    than to live in a house full of confusion
    Source: Song Lyrics Running Away, from the album Kaya
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Alice Miller It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • René Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Let nothing be called natural
    In an age of bloody confusion,
    Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
    And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
    Be held unalterable!
    Source: The Exception and the Rule
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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