Quotes on Confusion

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.

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.

Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.

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.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

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

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.