Confusion Quotes - Page 25

• I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

  Gregory Orr

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

  "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

  Nino Cerruti

  Quality, Victim, Culprit

  Interview with Matthieu Guinebault, uk.fashionnetwork.com. October 2, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ontology, Doe, Logic

  5 Copy quote

• Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

  Laurie Garrett

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

  4 Copy quote

• We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

  Alistair Begg

  Taken, Church, Culture

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.120, Moody Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Communication, Age, Secrecy

  Frithjof Schuon (1981). “Esoterism as Principle and as Way”, Sophia Perennis

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not the same type of fiction that established my success as a novelist; Ford is not a gutbuster and he is not trying to save the world from anything but its own confusion. There are no grenade launchers or rockets to solve his problems and he is more of a lover than a fighter. I have grown, I hope, both as a person and as a writer, and I needed another vehicle to carry the creative quest. Ashton Ford is that vehicle.

  Don Pendleton

  Years, Creative, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life are fear, anger, confusion, doubt and despair. If we overcome those enemies who attack from within , we can attain a sure victory over any attack from without.

  Chris Bradford

  Real, Winning, Enemy

  Chris Bradford (2008). “The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, Book 1)”, p.184, Penguin UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  35 Copy quote

• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Historical, Limits

  4 Copy quote

• I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

  Anna Kamienska

  Understanding, Levels, Connections

  8 Copy quote

• No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Disappointment, Fall

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 04, 2016

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

  Mason Cooley

  Understanding, Path

  10 Copy quote

• President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, President, Three

  4 Copy quote

• The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Order, Goal, Long

  69 Copy quote

• Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

  George Saunders

  Confused, Trying, Anything Is Possible

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Trying, Negative

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

  Ajahn Chah

  Anxiety, Mind, Tranquility

  9 Copy quote

• Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

  Samuel Chadwick

  World, Spirit, Results

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion.

  Dave Hunt

  Spiritual, Religious, Book

  12 Copy quote

• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

  Calvin Miller

  Love, Passion, Two

  12 Copy quote

• For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Purpose, Clarity

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.163, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

  Samuel Beckett

  Blessed, Waiting, Answers

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

  Mike Catt

  Home, Squad, Bags

  5 Copy quote