Angus Deaton Quotes

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

He who wars, walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes cannot always discern the right path.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

The more I see, the less I know.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

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

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Why should things be easy to understand?

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

The obscurest epoch is today.