#confusion

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#body #confusion #large #large body #nation

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#confusion #funny

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. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #clarification #confusion #cults #delight

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#call #confusion #dignity #even #give

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds. ↗

— Brian Molko

#confusion #creates #feel #i #i feel

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#admitted #america #because #cared #confusion

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#background #confusion #days #end #i