Quotes on Confusion

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Author: James Agee

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Author: John Calhoun

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Author: Rudolf Carnap

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Author: Johnny Depp

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Author: Bob Dole

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Author: Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Author: Albert Einstein

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Author: Sarah Fielding

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

Author: George Gillespie

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

Author: Anne Grant

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Author: Molly Ivins

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

Author: Jon Johansen

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Author: Jack Kerouac

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Author: Henry Miller

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Author: John Milton

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Author: John Podhoretz

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Author: Willard Quine

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Author: Marilyn Savant

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Author: Anne Stevenson

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Author: James Thurber

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

Author: Henry Villard

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

Author: William Wharton

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Author: Walt Whitman

In a world full of apples, be brightly eccentric pineapple!

Author: Sally Sunshine