Quotes About Confounds

What confounds a society is not serious opposition, but the lack of seriousness altogether. Generals can more easily suffer attempts to oppose their warfare with poiesis than attempts to show warfare as poiesis.

But social class is only one of an unlimited number of potential confounds present in MRA studies. Almost anything that's correlated with both the predictor variable and the outcome variable in such studies becomes a candidate for explaining the correlation between the two.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. 'Tis Iron - that I know - not gold.

Architecture today need not be just that which you bump up against when you try to look at something else nor a monument culturally framed and rendered visible by its own importance. Architecture's new confounds are not just making buildings visible but are encouraging them to find ways to make perception enter the realm of experience rather than vision, to make images that produce material impressions, to make experience that is vivid.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.