A. A. Milne Quotes

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.