Will Rogers Quotes

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

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

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.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

I know too much and not enough

The more I know, the less I understand

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.