Confusion Quotes

• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Immortal
  • Select
  • Gross

• I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Confusion
  • Awake
  • Involves

• I like trying to write about confusion and grey areas because life is not normally very clear-cut and simple, especially when it comes to the way people interact.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • People
  • Life is
  • Confusion

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Sea

• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Confusion
  • Cause
  • Course

• Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Confusion
  • Economist
  • Divorced

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Dance

• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Success
  • Language
  • Force

• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Wound

• Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Kids
  • Reality

• I think that public discussions thus far, without a specific proposal, has created and enhanced a lot of confusion and fear among seniors, wondering if their benefits now are going to be cut.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Fear
  • Public
  • Discussions

• You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Confusion
  • My Heart

• Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Place
  • Drink
  • Watering

• The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Real
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Talent
  • Faces

• I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

  

  Mona Eltahawy
  • Confusion
  • Hook

• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Fear

• I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Confusion
  • Cause
  • Riots

• I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Soul
  • Confusion
  • Judgements

• Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Personality
  • Mood
  • Birth

• There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.

  

  Keith E. Idso
  • Failing
  • Warming
  • Doomsday

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