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Quotes About Confusion

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
~ Rudolf Carnap
Madness, and then illumination.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
~ Stephen Hawking
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
~ James M. Barrie
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.
~ Damien Hirst
I never could make out what those damned dots meant.
~ Lord Randolph Churchill
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
~ Lisa Randall
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
~ Niels Bohr
Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
~ Dean Hamer
She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no
~ Pieter van Musschenbroek
Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.
~ Lauren DeStefano
My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?
~ Richelle Mead
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
~ Jodi Picoult
Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don´t do it
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
~ Zhuangzi
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
~ Tupac Shakur
When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.
~ Jonathan Winters
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
~ Zosia Mamet
And so it was that the two of us, out of a shared and confused hatred, performed an act that looked like love, but while our bodies sought each other and came together we were both thinking and speaking of him all the time, of nothing but him.
~ zweig stefan