Confusion Quotes

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seemin my opinionto characterize our age. (Albert Einstein)
I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. View quote
Isaac Newton
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? View quote
Federico Fellini
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. View quote
Gerald Ford
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. View quote
Henry Miller
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. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. (Baruch Spinoza)
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. View quote
Francis Bacon
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. View quote
Rudolf Carnap
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. View quote
René Daumal
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. View quote
Germaine Greer
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. View quote
James Thurber
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. View quote
George Santayana
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. (Jack Welch)
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. View quote
Johnny Depp
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. View quote
Doris Lessing
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa