Confusion Quotes - Page 10

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

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.