David Shields Quotes

The more I see, the less I know.

The more I know, the less I understand

We live in a bewildering world.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.