"That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group."
Confusing quotes
Confusing
264 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Confusing
Browse quotes that often appear alongside confusing — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Confusing quotes (page 2 of 14)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody."
"Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes."
"Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them."
"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
"The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying."
"Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating."
"I tend not to look back. It's confusing."
"I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing."
"The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us."
"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
"What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before."
"Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion."
"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."
"As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions."
"Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing."
"The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion."
"What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure."
"This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing."
"I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies."