Quotes about Puzzlement

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

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.

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.

Well now, I dunno

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.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.

can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next verse.' 'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How could he turn them out with his nose, you know?' 'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 'Go on with the next verse,' the