Unclear Thinking Quotes

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

Sometimes, you still have days when you don't just feel right, like there is a kind of congestion, and the flow isn't there. You're just not playing clearly.

I'm pretty mercurial and a very difficult, long-winded decision-maker at the best of times.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

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

The public mind is a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.