Confusion Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• ...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Pain, Goal

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell, David Featherstone, Robert Adams (1986). “EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston”

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• Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

  Harrison Owen

  Chaos, Conflict, Harmony

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• Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion.

  Joseph Pilates

  Sunset, Sunrise, Different

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• Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Education, Teacher, Math

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• We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Leaving, Progress

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Taoism, Fidelity

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• Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Complaining, Forget, Complexity

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.4, MIT Press

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• Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

  A. E. Waite

  Practice, Evil, Use

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• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

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• We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.

  Hideo Kojima

  Moving, Effort, Decision

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• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

  Andre Breton

  Expectations, Challenges, Confusing

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• He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Fashion, Jesus

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• Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Motivational, People, Positive Energy

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• Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Anxiety, Feelings, Trying

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.58, Penguin

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