Confusion Quotes - Page 15

• In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

  Haruki Murakami

  Knowledge, World, Twins

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2013

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• 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

  Groups, Statistics, Individual

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

  Laozi

  Confused, Confusing, Mind

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Opportunity, Self

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• Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Dark, Meditation Practice, Discipline

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

  Edward Tufte

  Data, Design, Understanding

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• You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 06, 2014

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• Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Passion, Creativity

  "Liveblogging Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial service" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Discipline, Broken

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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

  Choices, Misery, Conflict

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2016). “Krishnamurti's Notebook”, p.162, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd

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• We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.

  Nicolas Steno

  Ignorance, Views, Numbers

  "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.

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• Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.388, Bantam

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• I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Summer, Spring

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• There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Martial

  Love, Thee, Spleen

  Martial, Andrew Amos (1858). “Martial and the Moderns, by Andrew Amos”, p.117

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• Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Air, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

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• We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

  Thubten Chodron

  Mind, Able, Misery

  Thubten Chodron (2016). “Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't confuse facts with reality.

  Robert Ballard

  Life, Reality, Facts

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• But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.

  William Bayliss

  Science, Errors, Views

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• [P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

  Erwin Chargaff

  Confused, Science, Fog

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

  Marcel Proust

  Teaching, Ideas, Degrees

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• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Rain, Eye

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Ordinary, Fiction

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Skills, Obscurity

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