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Image of Chogyam Trungpa
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
- Chogyam Trungpa
Collection: Confusion
Image of Ambrose Bierce
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.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of William S. Burroughs
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
- William S. Burroughs
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Image of John Hurt
I don't like no confusion.
- John Hurt
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of Benjamin Haydon
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.
- Benjamin Haydon
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Image of William J. Clinton
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
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Image of Dale Carnegie
Confusion is the main cause of worry
- Dale Carnegie
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Image of Italo Calvino
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.
- Italo Calvino
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Image of Adyashanti
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
- Adyashanti
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Image of William Congreve
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
- William Congreve
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Image of Penelope Cruz
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.
- Penelope Cruz
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Image of Mason Cooley
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Barbara Marciniak
For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.
- Barbara Marciniak
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Image of Akiane Kramarik
I broke down all conclusions into illusions and confusions.
- Akiane Kramarik
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Image of Salvador Dali
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
- Salvador Dali
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Image of Mason Cooley
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Steven Erikson
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
- Steven Erikson
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Image of Epicurus
We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.
- Epicurus
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Image of T. S. Eliot
A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.
- T. S. Eliot
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Image of Frederick Lenz
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Euripides
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
- Euripides
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Seth Godin
Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Newt Gingrich
Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.
- Newt Gingrich
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Image of Hannah Arendt
Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Billy Graham
The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Hannah Arendt
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Trevor Noah
I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.
- Trevor Noah
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Image of Kim Harrison
Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.
- Kim Harrison
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Image of L. Ron Hubbard
You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.
- L. Ron Hubbard
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Image of Chelsea Handler
I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.
- Chelsea Handler
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Image of Molly Ivins
Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
- Molly Ivins
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Image of Byron Katie
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.
- Byron Katie
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Image of Robert Kennedy
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
- Robert Kennedy
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Image of Franz Kafka
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.
- Franz Kafka
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Image of Walter Lippmann
For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of Gottfried Leibniz
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
- Gottfried Leibniz
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Image of Charles de Lint
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
- Charles de Lint
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Phyllis McGinley
If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
- Phyllis McGinley
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Image of Terence McKenna
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.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Bob Marley
It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.
- Bob Marley
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