Quotes about Puzzlement
“Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
— John 9:12
Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
— Acts 2:12
And they were unable to answer these questions.
— Luke 14:6
Well now, I dunno
— LM Montgomery
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
— Proverbs 30:18
Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.
— LM Montgomery
his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.
— Dorothy Sayers
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
— Psalm 73:16
and some who were standing there asked, “Why are you untying the colt?”
— Mark 11:5
There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on.
— Paul David Tripp
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.
— Don Piper
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...
— Charles Dickens