Perplexity Quotes

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. - Emile M. Cioran

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer. - Thomas Carlyle

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. - Philip Melanchthen

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the man of courage has no fear. - Confucius

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. - Bible

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. - Kahlil Gibran

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world. - Margaret Oliphant

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt