Baffled Quotes

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

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Persons, My Own

  Benoit Mandelbrot's lecture at the University of Maryland, March 2005.

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• I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

  Annie Lennox

  Cutting, Viewpoints, Sometimes

  "Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

  Adam Smith

  Ignorance, Imagination, Facts

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• I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

  Julia Sawalha

  Feel Better, Age, Honest

  "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

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• 'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

  Moby

  Careers, Arbitrary, Patterns

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• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Dazzle, Bulls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

  Barbra Streisand

  Moving, Issues, Common

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• There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

  Pete Hamill

  Daughter, Book, Long Ago

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• I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

  Maya Rudolph

  Children, People, Mets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

  J. William Fulbright

  Liars, Men, Indulge In

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

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• Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

  Benito Mussolini

  Anarchist, Dictator

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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Courage, Fall, Sleep

  'Asolando' (1889) 'Epilogue'

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• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Insult, Compliment

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• I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.

  John Banville

  Thinking, Long Ago, Law

  John Banville (2014). “The Book of Evidence: Picador Classic”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

  William Dean Howells

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Evil

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• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Secret

  Song: Hallelujah

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• I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

  Kanye West

  Nice, Rap, American West

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

  George Steiner

  Book, Privilege, Creation

  George Steiner, Laure Adler (2017). “A Long Saturday: Conversations”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Emotional, Evil People, Soul

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• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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  One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Things In Life, Ideas

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
  Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Politics, Slander

  1595 Mowbray to Richard. Richard II, act1, sc.1, l.170-1.

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• Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Funny, Hilarious, Sweet

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.172, Hachette UK

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