Quotations about

Confusion

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

—Tom Robbins

I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

—Woody Allen

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

—George Carlin

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

—Harry S. Truman

No one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

—Rachel Cohn in Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

—Tom Peters

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

—E. O. Wilson

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

—John Ashbery

The only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

—Pema Chödrön

Confusion is always the most honest response.

—Marty Indik

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

—Robert Frost

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

—George Bernard Shaw

What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away