Baffled famous quotes

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
-- Adam Smith

#Ignorance #Imagination #Baffled

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
-- Annie Lennox

#Cutting #Viewpoints #Baffled

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Art #Accomplishment #Baffled

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Baffled #Persons

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.
-- Donald Antrim

#Baffled

One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.
-- Gary Reilly

#Reality #College #Baffled

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.
-- Julia Sawalha

#Feel Better #Age #Baffled

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Children #People #Baffled

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!
-- Patrick Ness

#Stupid #Baffled #Dawn

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
-- Paul Davies

#Doors #Baffled #Mystery

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
-- Wendell Berry

#Mind #Baffled #Unemployed

A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
-- William Broad

#Missing #Baffled #Majority

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
-- William Golding

#Hate #Literature #Baffled