Confusion Quotes

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  Larry King

  Order, Organization, Giving

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• Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Fear, People

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confused, Emotion, Made

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Understanding, Confusing

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

  James A. Michener

  Life, Dream, Reality

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Drifters: A Novel”, p.59, Dial Press

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Confusing, Suitcases

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

  Herbert Spencer

  Knowledge, Men, Order

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.242

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• I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Frustration, Going Away

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• I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Funny Inspirational

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Frustration, Confusing

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.139, Columbia University Press

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Pioneers

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• Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Learning, Thinking

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1921). “The Story of My Life: with her letters (1887--1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan”, Doubleday, Page & Company

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• Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

  Twiggy

  Communication, Form, Unexplained

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• Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Issues, Trying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Hospitality, Mets, Conventions

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

  George Carman

  Soul, Feelings, Emotion

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

  John Cheever

  Philosophy, People, Looks

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• A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

  Johan Huizinga

  Simple, Practice, Superstitions

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• Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

  Andrew Cohen

  Pain, Men, Self

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• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

  Ernest Istook

  Sea, America, Needs

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