Quotes About Perplexity

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

Isn't corn like a meat or something?

Maybe I'm telling you what you already know, but I don't know what anybody knows anymore.

What's wrong?" Gertie asked as she put a bowl of stew in front of me. "Nothing," I said. "Everything." "There's a bit of a gap between those two words," Ida Belle said.

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

The world and all the people in it had suddenly slipped beyond her comprehension and she felt in great danger of losing the whole world once and for all--a feeling that is difficult to explain.

Ar vertÄ—jo mus sukurti, jie mes tokie prakeikti kvailiai?

don't understand why you would want

Todos vivían en una especie de mundo de acertijos, donde lo verdadero nunca se decía ni se hacía ni se pensaba.

She stared, perhaps suspecting irony, as she always did beneath the unintelligible.

There did I finde mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie.

Maddened by Mystery.

It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.

Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.

Yeah," said Jack. "No idea about weather these days.

she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.