Quotes about Perplexity
I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself, to begin with, and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing
— Lewis Carroll
You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
— Euripides
There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.
— Alice Walker
They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
— Anonymous
For while the unbelievers flourish, they do not know what is waiting for them on the next day; therefore, they must always live in turmoil because of perplexity and fear; neither
— John Calvin
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
— John Donne
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)
— Albert Einstein
There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.
— Richard Blackaby
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
— Elizabeth George
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
— Aldous Huxley
We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.
— Joseph Heller
his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.
— Dorothy Sayers