Quotes About Perplexity

And no matter which way you turn your desperate gaze, there's absolutely no land in sight, which is strange, because you didn't think you'd gone out that far to begin with.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

guardia y como al acecho esperando lo peor. Mientras en el miedo el temor es concreto, específico y se produce por algo, en la ansiedad el temor viene de todas partes y de ninguna, de ahí la perplejidad que

Wilberforce is having thoughts now that seem utterly strange and foreign.

Fireheart froze. He wanted to protest, but could find no words. The rest of the Clan was just as silent, except for Yellowfang, who muttered, "He's mad.

who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.

dreams, but so could he. That didn't mean he knew the answer to everything.

The best questions are the ones that create the most uncertainty.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

It is the plainest and simplest of things that most daunt and confuse us.

I showed her my warrant card, and she stared at it in confusion. You get that about half the time, mainly because most members of the public have never seen a warrant card close up and have no idea what the hell it is.

But, to my chagrin, either I misunderstood Hank or he and his staff changed course.

Our situation seems to be getting trickier by the day,

On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.

The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out. I

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why.

of all this?" Gilpin

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Feynman once said that if you understand quantum theory, you don't. I had no idea what Lisa was talking about.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.