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Quotes About Puzzlement

El misterio me aburre, es una lata. [...] Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.
~ Markus Zusak
So what's interesting? It ain't like he
~ Martha Grimes
Excellent! I cried. Elementary, said he. It
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Zašto me tako ?udno umirivao pogled na njega?
~ Arthur Golden
John – tell me, are we lost?
~ Arthur Miller
How can they whip cheese?
~ Arthur Miller
however, the doubts really set in.
~ Atul Gawande
I still have no idea what I did differently that day.
~ Atul Gawande
But the truth of the matter is that it tends to raise as many questions as it answers.
~ Atul Gawande
So it struck me as odd to find
~ Atul Gawande
I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.
~ Stephen Chbosky
A lot of it is good, but a lot of it is bad. Again, I don't know why this always happens.
~ Stephen Chbosky
He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.
~ Stephen King
To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.
~ Ivan M. Granger
the hell? I thought. My life is no more mixed
~ Jojo Moyes
She could have ... People still wanted to know.
~ Jon McGregor
analogies may be scientifically important; they may serve, psychologically, to illuminate a dry exposition or to dispel a puzzlement; and they may be useful, methodologically, in suggesting a synthesis or provoking a generalization. But they have no inferential status: argument 'from analogy' is one of the numerous species of bad argument. (pp 56)
~ Jonathan Barnes
Volevo chiudere gli occhi, o coprirli con una mano, e al tempo stesso volevo guardare, guardare a sazietà e tentare di comprendere con lo sguardo quella cosa incomprensibile, lì, davanti a me, quel vuoto per il pensiero umano.
~ Jonathan Littell
I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.
~ Emo Philips
Es posible que haya una respuesta para esa pregunta, pero también que jamás llegue a saber exactamente cuál es.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
~ Erich Fromm
I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)
~ Erin Hunter