Confusion Quotes

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Moment

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

Problem, Means, Perfection

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Life, Home, Gratitude

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Opinion, Means

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

Away, Used, State

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Means, Perfection

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama

Religion, May, Easy

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

Good, Death, Heart

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

Pretty, Try, Face

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, America

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu

Love, Great, Knowledge

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Life, Great, Wisdom

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

Peace, Death, Again

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

Happy, Single, Together

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

Word, Order, Understood

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Power, Attitude, Hate

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.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Daily, Living

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette

Happiness, Fear, Anger

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac

Nothing, Anybody, Except

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

Two, Put, Wrong

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.
Edward Steichen

Beauty, Human, Feelings

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

Percent, Agency, Commission

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

Truth, Error, Emerges

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.
Doris Lessing

Change, Great, Old

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
Demetri Martin

Someone, Hard, Cause

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.
John Milton

Light, Darkness, Order

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana

Minds, Order, Chaos

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.
Anne Grant

Sense, Hopeless, Both

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

Change, Strength, Means

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Greatest, Storm

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