Confusing Quotes - Page 2

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.