Confused Thinking Quotes

It is not merely that Johnny can't read, or even that Johnny can't think. Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling. … The phrase ‘I feel’ is often used by American students to introduce a conclusion, rather than say ‘I think,’ or ‘I know,’ much less ‘I conclude.’ Unfortunately, ‘I feel’ is often the most accurate term…

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I think, therefore I am confused.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.