Quotes about Perplexity

eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know.

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's RATHER hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it seemed to fill my head with ideas - only I don't know exactly what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear, at any rate -