Confusion quotes

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon

If confusion leads to knowledge, then I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
- Isaac Newton

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.
- Penelope Cruz

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
- Johnny Depp

Don't follow your friend's advice, because they are just as confused as you are.
- Julia Beverly

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
- Jack Kornfield

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
- Tom Waits

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
- Carl von Clausewitz

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused.
- Cliff Burton

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.
- Joe R. Lansdale

It is 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.
- Adam McKay

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
- Enrico Fermi

Confusion is the main cause of worry.
- Dale Carnegie

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
- Bob Dole

You can’t follow your heart when it is more confused than your head.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
- Michael J. Gelb

God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace.
- Quentin L. Cook

Confusion is only a matter of doubt before you leap forward using your decision making power to control your own destiny.
- Byron Pulsifer