Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Confusion quotes
Confusion
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter."
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life"
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"In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom."
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"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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"It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions."
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"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."
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"To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge."
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"Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought."
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"Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection."
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"The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress."
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"It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion."
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"I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration."
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"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality."
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"O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate"
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"What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."
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"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.""
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"If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue."
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"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
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"I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
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"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
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"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart."
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"People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions."
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