Quotes about confusion
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. Gerald R. Ford
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...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Techs were hot and everything else was not on confusion about the future of interest rates. When the interest-rate picture is cloudy, the focus turns to earnings. And earnings in the tech sector have been good.
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He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. Leonardo da Vinci
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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. Learned Hand
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Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid. Newt Gingrich
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality. Nelson Goodman
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Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense. Paul Muldoon
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Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently. Mark Epstein
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I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me. Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan
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Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman
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Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. Germaine Greer
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. George Washington
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. John Milton
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Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime. Norbert Wiener
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music. Mike Watt
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus. Edward de Bono
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Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me. Lenny Kravitz
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You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion. L. Ron Hubbard
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Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension. Sri Chinmoy
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. Rudolf Arnheim
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For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture. Walter Lippmann
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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. William S. Burroughs
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We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love. William J. Clinton
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. Zora Neale Hurston
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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. William Dean Howells