Puzzled Quotes

• We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Puzzled
  • Loads
  • Half Lived

• The resulting weird system must have so puzzled my examiners that they couldn't or wouldn't ask any telling questions at my oral defense.

  

  John Bacon
  • Questions
  • Ask
  • Resulting

• The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Law
  • Judging
  • Declaring

• When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Effort
  • Hurt
  • Puzzled

• Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Work
  • Laughter
  • Expression

• You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

  

  Norton Juster
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Reason

• It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • People
  • Evidence
  • Granted

• Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • Reason
  • Astrology
  • Puzzled