Quotes About Confusion

I don't even know where to start with the story. Leo says

She stands there, staring down at the floor, the soda she had just grabbed from the shelf now dangling from her hand. "Omigod

Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

I'm not an Alpha! I don't want an Omega. Or toys. I don't want anything!" But you. "Your mind is not clear.

Steve doesn't work here anymore." Madeline sat in the cul-de-sac, trying to absorb the words she'd just heard. "I haven't seen Steve since he was laid off. That was at the beginning of September. About six months ago.

They looked at each other. "I don't understand it. But I know who sent it." Maddie Singer's thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible. She claimed she'd been a lot more comfortable with her smartphone before it got so smart.

it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves. . . . For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

And it's not like I never reached out for help. I did! I just didn't know what questions to ask, and the adults I was close to didn't know what answers to give.

During part of her childhood, Elizabeth was illegitimate. In 1534, Parliament ruled that it was treason to believe her illegitimate. In 1536, it was treason to believe her legitimate. Signals were changed again in 1543, and again in 1553. After that you could believe anything.

He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion—and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined.

Links, sagte Humboldt. Wieso links, fragte Bonpland. Also rechts, sagte Humboldt. Aber warum rechts? Zum Teufel, rief Humboldt, jetzt werde es ihm zu blöd.

You business', sagte er dann. 'Kill why?' Sie lächelte, um zu zeigen, dass sie nicht verstand. 'Everything', sagte der Mann. 'Foam. Lorry?' Sie hob die Schultern. 'Hobble', sagte der Mann. 'Hobble grease. Why?' Sie lächelte verkrampft. 'Why?' Der Mann klopfte an die Scheibe. 'Grease, the hobble why!

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.

Eu teria voltado para casa, se soubesse onde ficava. Mas como eu não tinha mais certeza sobre coisa nenhuma, resolvi ficar parado no mesmo lugar para ver se minha casa acabava me encontrando.

Sentí muy pronto las ganas de huir... ¿Pero hacia dónde? Confusión. Huir de mí mismo, digamos, y sin embargo, seguir siendo yo mismo. Pero en un yo que hubiera sido aceptable para los demás.

That's not the kind of thing crazy people do, her muddled thoughts insisted. That's the kind of thing crazy people see.

After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered.

I suppose it's true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.

Who the *&^$* is "Paolo"?

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.