Quotes About Confusion

With mind far off, not thinking of death's coming, Performing these meaningless activities, Returning empty-handed now would be complete confusion; The need is recognition, the spiritual teachings, So why not practice the path of wisdom at this very moment? From the mouths of the saints come these words: If you do not keep your master's teaching in your heart Will you not become your own deceiver?

we have to understand, the buddhas took one path and we took another. The buddhas recognize their original nature and become enlightened; we do not recognize that nature and so become confused.

As we were walking the other day, she said she had often thought what a beautiful world this would be, when we should see every thing right side up. Now, we see every thing topsy-turvy, and all is confusion.

The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.

No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.

Oh, God. I can't do this. I only slightly want to have a baby. I think. I actually don't know at all.

Wall of lies?' Proust muttered. 'Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?

I'm low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,' Simon told him. 'You got the brunt of it. This time.

Há muita incoerência sem sentido no mundo, a maior parte fruto de estupidez.

What happened to you, baby?

Cassian's not a bad sort. He's not . . . quite like his father." Not quite. I pull back, certain my mother has been snatched by aliens. "Are you serious?

Do not rummage through your thought's drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.

And the Savior said that the very elect would be deceived by Lucifer if it were possible [see Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:22]. [Lucifer] will use his logic to confuse and his rationalizations to destroy. He will shade meanings, open doors an inch at a time, and lead from purest white through all the shades of gray to the darkest black.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Bints are the very devil to understand.

The cubs began to tell him the story of the big bird that flew in the window and broke the lamp. It was harder to tell the second time. For one thing, they couldn't quite remember how they had told it the first time.

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

Sam Pickett, English teacher and former basketball coach at Willow Creek High School, scrounged for sleep in his tangled bed. He was thirty-six years old and he hadn't a clue as to who he was or what his life was about. He bore a wound he couldn't heal. He

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

What was true and solid begins to slide, dissolve. Your thoughts unravel faster than a satin ribbon Whose edge hasn't been burned Until you sit amidst a tangle of limp, pink threads, Unable to reason At all.

You been tellin' me you're a genius Since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean --Steely Dan

You've been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean.

that weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned the things that pass for knowledge I can't understand