157+ EXCLUSIVE Confused Quotes To Get You Thinking

Some people have very clear, definite ideas and goals. But, confusion is also good. You have much more clarity than you think as confused and unsure. Best confused quotes will make you realize how it can make you more liberated, educated, and free.

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Best Confused Quotes

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – John Gay

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be. – Stephen Chbosky

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. – Winona Ryder

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership. – Mark Goulston

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions. – Corrine Brown

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. – George Saunders

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens. – Kirsten Dunst

Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from. – Robyn Mundell

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

When you don’t know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much. – Toba Beta

People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused. – Jonathan Ames

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. – Tom Waits

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

Logic of a madman is a sane man’s confusion. – Jeo R. Lansdale

If I look confused, it is because I am thinking. – Samuel Goldwyn

With great power often comes great confusion. – Dan Allen

Anyone who isn’t confused, really doesn’t understand the situation. – Edward R. Murrow

Confusion is a sign of intelligence; only fools are crystal clear. – Haresh Sippy

I freely admit I’m confused. I’m a confused and troubled individual but at the same time…It’s Free! – Craig Ferguson

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. – Walter F. Mondale

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. – Daniel Boone

I’ve never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once. – Daniel Boone

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. – Raoul Dufy

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. – Michael J. Gelb.

Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. – Margaret Mead

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. – Tom Peters

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful? – Larry McMurtry

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, ‘This, too, shall pass.’ – Josh Groban

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! – William Shakespeare

Short Confused Quotes

The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. – Irene Peter

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was. – James Baldwin

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. – Stevie Wonder

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. – Anatole France

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does. – Beyonce Knowles

One moment in life you get stuck… and confused. – Deyth Banger

I’m gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I’m determined to get through it. – Gareth Evans

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused. – Cliff Burton

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. – Alain de Botton

The future is inherently uncertain. – Manmohan Singh

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.

Confused like small birds trap into a badminton game. – Sulejman Halilagic

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again. – Aurora Berill

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood. – Henry Miller

Sensuality is allowing your brilliance and confusion to coexist. – Lebo Grand

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world. – Pierre Nanterme

You can’t follow your heart when it is more confused than your head.

Inspirational Confused Quotes

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. – Hugh Mackay

I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed. – Robert Frost

We all go through doubt. It’s hard. Those difficult moments are what build your character. – Joe Rogan

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

Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality. – Steven Redhead

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion. – Ljupka Cvetanova

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

I always make a decision, even if it’s the wrong one. I hate being confused. – Yolandi Visser

Most of my life I’ve had long periods of feeling down and lost. That’s why every five years or so I’ve smashed my life to pieces and started again. – Siobhan Fahey

We’re all stumbling in the dark and that makes for some very interesting collisions. – Marty Rubin

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. – Margaret Fuller

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. – Scotty Bowman

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts. – Mason Cooley

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt. – Richard Bausch

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. – A. J. Liebling

So Confused Quotes & Sayings About Life and Love

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. – Joyce Meyer

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. – Chuck D

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. – Jack Kerouac

My life changed completely. It’s crazy now. It’s kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world; just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn’t be happier with life, really. – Becky Lynch

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. – Dale Carnegie

I’m totally confused about what I’m going to do with my life. – Bill Hicks

Just remember; when you think all is lost, the future remains. – Robert H. Goddard

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

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. – Molly Ivins

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

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. – Tim Burton

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from. – Henna Inam

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on. – Hanoi Hannah

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

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

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. – Theodore Hesburgh

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we’re the center of everything. – Mae Jemison

Now I’m confused. Now I don’t know what I want. – Chris Kirkpatrick

If you go out there with doubts or unsure what’s going to happen, it’s not going to go your way. – Kevin Anderson

Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious. – Michael Stipe

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. – Enrico Fermi

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. – Charles Baudelaire

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

Love is when two people who care for each other get confused. – Bob Schneider

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. – William Westmoreland

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – A. A. Milne

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. – George Crumb

The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind. – Amit Kalantri

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we’re about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world. – James Gleick

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

Life Is So Confusing Quotes

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it. – Mark Twain

The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. – Douglas Adams

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers. – Anne Burrell

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I’ve met that seem very genuine to me, but they’re just confused about why it happened. I’ve met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine… but there’s a lot of crazy people out there. – Dave Davies

It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands, and they’ll do practically anything you want them to. – J.D. Salinger

I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions. – Anne Rice

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I’ll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn’t. – Tom Berenger

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

To be given permission to be confused — and remain confused — for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. – Janet Jackson

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. – Felix Klein

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. – Stephen Covey

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it’s too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer. – Janet Jackson

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. – Walt Whitman

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. – Harper Lee

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. – Iris Murdoch

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. – Steven Pinker

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. – Bill James

I’m slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. – Rachel Weisz

We often confuse what we wish for with what is. – Neil Gaiman

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are. – Stephen Covey

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. – Jane Haddam

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul on the very thing we search for, without finding it. – Seneca the Younger

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined. – Sarah Dessen

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. – Lillian Smith

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

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

We’re completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you’re fictionalizing; the moment you remember, you’re dreaming. It’s ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense. – David Shields

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. – Larry Leissner

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

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. – Heston Blumenthal

I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved. – Khalid

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

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. – William Golding

You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused. – Winona Ryder

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. – Howard Staunton

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

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history, but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. – Will Self

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. – Conan O’Brien

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused. – James McGreevey

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. – Winston Churchill

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. – George Carlin

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You’ve got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. – Jack Hanna

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. – Diane von Furstenberg

sometime hate is just confused love! – omar tyree

Right and wrong are very complicated; sometimes we get confused which one to follow.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. – Herbert Spencer

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone… – Charlotte Eriksson

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused. – Amit Abraham

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. – Carl von Clausewitz

Most people living in the world are confused about life. – Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives. – Tom Steyer