Quotes about Perplexing
I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White
- JRR Tolkien
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
- Exodus 3:3
When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
- 2 Kings 9:11
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
- Psalm 73:16
On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
- John 6:60
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
- Acts 17:20
If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.
- Virginia Woolf
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
- Oscar Wilde
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?
- Milan Kundera
That exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
- Hilaire Belloc
This story doesn't make any damn sense
- Ernest Cline
But, let these perplexing debatings and disputations of the philosophers go on as they may, we, in order that we may confess the most high and true God Himself, do confess His will, supreme power, and prescience.
- St. Augustine