Confusion Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Community, Mind, Want

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.110, Da Capo Press

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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

  Achievement, Today, Tomorrow

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9151, Delphi Classics

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• London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  House, Design, Together

  Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Humanity

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

  John Lehman

  Power, Political, Politics

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• In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Race, Doors

  "Song: 'Rat Race'". 1976.

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• There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

  Richard Rogers

  Thinking, Long Ago, Wish

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• It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

  Steven Wright

  Confused, Bird, Confusing

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• The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.

  Andrew Davies

  Gratitude, Moving, Eye

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• A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Hunger And Poverty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.304, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Art, Emotional

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

  William Congreve

  Couches, Levees, Alluring

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 4, sc. 1

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• It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

  Bob Marley

  House, Significant

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Forever, Anarchy

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.686

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Effort

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

  John Chadwick

  Men, Order, Quality

  John Chadwick (2014). “The Decipherment of Linear B”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

  John Knowles

  Reflection, World, Found

  John Knowles (1996). “A Separate Peace”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Philosopher

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

  Molly Ivins

  Democracy, Certain, Neat

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• We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating

  "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.

  Nita Leland

  Exercise, People, Creative

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Promise, Matter, Mazes

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• God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Religious, Reality, Chaos

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