I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy — Layne Staley
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. — Henry Miller
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained. — Twiggy
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment. — Miyamoto Musashi
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. — Enrico Fermi
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. — Gordon Matta-Clark
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. — Noam Chomsky
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison
It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. — Wendell Berry
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic. — Dai Vernon
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. — Rumi
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious — Anton Chekhov
I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it. — Peter Gizzi
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. — Martin Luther
Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment. — Chaz Bufe
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Dumbfounded Quotes
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. — Walter Cronkite
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. — Leo Rosten
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in. — Gerald R. Ford
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded. — Lewis Thomas
Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded. — Richelle Mead
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject. — Abdoulaye Wade
I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game. — Francis Lee
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded. — Kenneth E. Boulding
I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me. — Richelle Mead
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes. — Neal Stephenson
Befuddled Quotes
Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger! — Brian Jacques
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit. — Abraham Maslow
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible — Steve Case
Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling. — Mason Cooley
Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention. — Joel Coen
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. — Richard Reeves
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete. — Simon Sinek
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past. — Stefan Zweig
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering. — Pope Benedict XVI
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. — Kahlil Gibran
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor
When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void. — Miyamoto Musashi
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life. — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. — Frank Moore Colby
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment. — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. — Freeman Dyson
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty. — Stephen Batchelor
Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.
When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end.
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight. — Rumi
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like. — Noam Chomsky
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. — Rumi
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. — Sakyong Mipham
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame. — Sean O Faolain
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. — Laurie Lee
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. — Rumi
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations. — James Harvey Robinson
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. — Laurence Binyon
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know. — Alton Tobey
Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you stop?' asked Tessa. 'I thought you might want to breathe,' said Guy carefully. 'Breathe?'said Tessa , shocked. 'I don’t need to breathe when I’m with you.' — Eva Ibbotson
Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration. — Ralph P. Martin
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it. — Robin Hobb
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment — Peter S. Beagle
Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors. — Tarjei Vesaas
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. — James Thurber
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment. — Rumi
Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery. — John Cheever
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds? — Sakyong Mipham
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