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“Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.”
Edward R. Murrow
“The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.”
Blaise Pascal
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks”
Daniel Boone
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the”
Winston Churchill
“The minute a thing is long and complicated it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept but they are understood.”
Will Rogers
“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”
William S. Burroughs
“The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc”
Eugene Ionesco
“When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.”
Joni Mitchell