Top 161 Confusion Quotes

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom – to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago – to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn’t even know me!

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people’s minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn’t actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

There’s a confusion of what I do. Are you the rock guy? Are you the family guy? Who are you? I’m the people’s entertainer.

There’s no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else’s skin, and know it’s not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it’s provided me with a lot of confusion. It’s also provided me with a lot of discovery.

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that’s to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn’t know if someone was stuttering. ‘Yes, hello I’d like some b-batteries.’ ‘What kind?’ ‘B-batteries.’ ‘What kind?’ ‘B-batteries!’ and D-batteries that’s hard for foreigners. ‘Yes, I would like de batteries.’

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market.

People have seen the Shiv Sena and the BJP for the past 30 years. For 25 years, we stood united, there was confusion for five years. But like Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, I still provided guidance to government from time to time.

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you’re going through stuff, the last person you’re thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

All comparisons between America’s current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

There’s always been a confusion about my sensibility. ‘Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?’ I’m a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

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

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

It’s a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore, which is a difficult thing to have in your head – since the time when you were a kid, that guitar sound and approach is what you associate with Deep Purple.

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong – the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

I had no confusion about making a superhero film. From the very day one, I knew I will make a movie of this genre which will have an Indian superhero. I never wanted to copy my superhero from any of the Hollywood ones.

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.

As children know, there’s lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

You’ve got to eliminate the confusion in your life. And eliminate the excuses.

The thing that I realized in my journey as a whistleblower… is that the reaction that I got from a lot of law enforcement and regulatory agencies was confusion and bafflement.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

I’d rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I’m growing and challenging myself all the time.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

The essential argument in the book, ‘Art as Therapy,’ is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it’s easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it’s really for.

Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry’s Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.