Quotes About Perplexity

Vivimos en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

Solutions are not the answer.

One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

There is no way to find a logical way to deal with this when logic isn't involved.

I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don't quite understand.

Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.

Main Street is as dead as ever. There's a blinding white light at the water-tower end of it and Jesus standing in the centre of it in a pale blue robe with his arms out, palms up, like he's saying how the hell would I know? I'm just a carpenter.

Something has gone amiss with the world, he found himself thinking. Something has changed in the marrow, and I'm at a loss to make sense of it.

Not—please understand me—that I was convinced that I had made a mistake; no, I was merely unconvinced that I had not made a mistake. I was, in other words, confused.

Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?

Then she'd straightened up and announced in irritation, "I've fallen out of time," before vanishing in a great cloud of smoke.

It's a grogler, you brainless cod! I yelled at him. No, it's a hyd-oh shit, it's a grogler, Orion said, and just stood there for a dazed, gaping moment.

Most days weren't clear when you were in them.

There are many things Rainey does not understand: war, and running with the bulls, for two examples. Why get anywhere near herds of bulls and irritate them in the first place? Why is this popular? She would prefer to be liked by bulls--to meet them in a placid zone and stare at one another.

olhinhos de madeira, por que me fitam?

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

For me, Nuria Montfort was like a mirage: you don't question its veracity, you simply follow it until it vanishes or until it destroys you.

In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.

Por qué son tan bobos a veces? —preguntó Bea. —¿Los hombres? Quién sabe. A lo mejor es porque la naturaleza es madre, aunque cruel, y los atonta de nacimiento. Pero algunos no están tan mal. —Eso

the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.

Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.