Robert Jordan Quotes

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his tribal identity depends on his not understanding it.

In my own personal career, I have felt almost the most difficult thing to deal with is someone who doesn't tell you what they are thinking.

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.