Quotes About Perplexity

I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

LIFE is simply COMPLICATED.

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

There is only one funda to know life, and no one knows it.

belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans, and a hundred offshoots of each, all raising their voices in praise to Him—often, too, raising their swords against one another in a manner, a zeal of hatred, which must have perplexed Him, as if one could ever chop off the head of one of His children and ascribe the act to His direct orders.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

For all we have learned, the fact remains that we do not understand in any meaningful way why people do what they do, and likely never will.

In childhood, the inexplicableness of the world is still vivid and fresh, and sometimes hits with terrifying force.