111 Confused Quotes to help you get clarity and solve issues

In life, it happens many times that you get confused and do not find the right direction. Confused mind is not a bad thing, confusion about something means you are looking on the problem, situation, relation or anything with different perspectives. And, while doing so, your decision making process has stretched a bit. In this post, we have curated Confused Quotes to help you get to the bottom of issues and get clarity.

Confused Quotes

1. “When you are confused and can not conclude, follow your instincts.” ~ Invajy

2. “Life is like a confused teacher. First she gives the tests and then teaches the lesson.” ~ Drake

3. “Confusion is the mother of new learning.” ~ Invajy

4. “Confusion shows something inside you is waiting to be explored and discovered.” ~ Invajy

5. “Sometimes hate is just confused love!” ~ Omar Tyree

6. “A confused mind tends to be the most creative.” ~ Steven Magee
7. “Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
8. “Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.” ~ Henry Miller
9. “I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.” ~ Corrine Brown
10. “There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.” ~ Scotty Bowman

Confusion quotes

11. “I’m slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.” ~ Rachel Weisz
12. “Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.” ~ George Santayana
13. “The future is no more uncertain than the present.” ~ Walt Whitman
14. “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” ~ Harry S. Truman
15. “Life being all inclusion and conclusion, and art being all discrimination and selection.” ~ Henry James
16. “Confusion is a chicken with shattered eyes.” ~ Thai Proverb
17. “The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.” ~ Pierre Nanterme
18. “Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.” ~ Margaret Mead
19. “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” ~ Hugh Mackay
20. “I think some people don’t even know what they’re talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.” ~ Brian Fallon

Confused Life Quotes

21. “The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.” ~ Molly Ivins
22. “History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” ~ Gerald R. Ford
23. “When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.” ~ Herbert Spencer
24. “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” ~ George Carlin
25. “Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.” ~ Jim Rohn
26. “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” ~ Jack Kerouac
27. “We’re living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There’s a lot of confusion about evil, where it’s all coming from.” ~ Charles Stanley
28. “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.” ~ Carl Sagan
29. “I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquility will return again.” ~ Anne Frank
30. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” ~ Theodore Hesburgh

Confused Quote

31. “If you go out there with doubtsor unsure what’s going to happen, it’s not going to go your way.” ~ Kevin Anderson
32. “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ~ Isaac Newton
33. “Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.” ~ James Thurber
34. “I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.” ~ George Crumb
35. “Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” ~ Francis Bacon
36. “Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.” ~ Anne Burrell
37. “I just love asking questions. I love people. It’s in my DNA. I’m cursed – and blessed.” ~ Larry King
38. “I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.” ~ Anne Rice
39. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~ Marie Curie
40. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ~ Stephen Covey

Quotes about being Confused

41. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” ~  Harper Lee
42. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ~ Galileo Galilei
43. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
44. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ~ Confucius
45. “The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.” ~ Mark Twain
46. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein
47. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
48. “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
49. “Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” ~ Roger Ebert
50. “If I look confused it is because I am thinking.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Confused Mind Quotes

51. “I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.” ~ Albert Einstein
52. “No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure.” ~ Lama Yeshe
53. “Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.” ~ Anne Austin
54. “Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.” ~ H. Lawrence
55. “In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.” ~ Walt Whitman
56. “I can still feel unsure in myself, and l’m still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.” ~ Bibi Bourelly
57. “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” ~ Winston Churchill
58. “I’ll tell you what I’m grateful for, and that’s the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.” ~ Kenneth Branagh
59. “Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.” ~ Carl von Clausewitz
60. “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” ~ Conan O’Brien

Confused Quotes

61. “Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.” ~ Tom Steyer
62. “My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.” ~ Peter Singer
63. “Logic of a madman is a sane man’s confusion.” ~ Jeo R. Lansdale
64. “With great power often comes great confusion.” ~ Dan Allen
65. “Confusion is a sign of intelligence; only fools are crystal clear.” ~ Haresh Sippy
66. “We all go through doubt. It’s hard. Those difficult moments are what build your character.” ~ Joe Rogan
67. “Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.” ~ Micheal J. Gelb
68. “If I look confused it is because I am thinking.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn
69. “One moment in life you get stuck… and confused.” ~ Deyth Banger
70. “If your mind is not clear then settle down.” ~ Herbern Lebumfacil

More Confused Quotes

71. “Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.” ~ Alain de Botton
72. “I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
73. “I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.” ~ Bill James
74. “That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.” ~ Anatole France
75. “When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.” ~ Lillian Smith
76. “And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.” ~ Heston Blumenthal
77. “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” ~ Shannon L. Alder
78. “But why, why, why can’t people just say what they mean?” ~ Graeme Simsion
79. “We often confuse what we wish for with what is.” ~ Neil Gaiman
80. “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” ~ Tom Peters

More Confused Quotes

81. “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.” ~ Karen Marie Moning
82. “Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.” ~ John Mayer
83. “Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.” ~ George Saunders
84. “Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
85. “However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser
86. “Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.” ~ Henna Inam
87. “Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious” ~ Michael Stipe
88. “I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.” ~ Robert Frost
89. “If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.” ~ Walter F. Mondale
90. “People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.” ~ Jane Haddam

Confusing quotes

91. “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” ~ William Shakespeare
92. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ Scott Fitzgerald
93. “Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.” ~Huineng
94. “Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.” ~ Aurora Berill
95. “We’re all stumbling in the dark and that makes for some very interesting collisions.” ~Marty Rubin
96. “Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.” ~ Ljupka Cvetanova
97. “Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.” ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
98. “Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality.” ~ Steven Redhead
99. “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ~ D. Salinger
100. “Sensuality is allowing your brilliance and confusion to coexist.” ~ Lebo Grand

Confused Quotes

101. “Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” ~ Albert Einstein
102. “The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.” ~ James Agee
103. “People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” ~ J. Liebling
104. “If confusion leads to knowledge, then I must be a genius.” ~ Larry Leissner
105. “In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.” ~ Mason Cooley
106. “Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.” ~ Richard Bausch
107. “People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.” ~ Jonathan Ames
108. “It’s pretty confusing.”
     “Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.” ~ Robyn Mundell
109. “How dreadful…to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.” ~ Caroline Stevermer
110. “We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.” ~ William Golding
111. “It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.” ~ Stephen Covey

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