Quotes about confusion
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A. C. Grayling photo

“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 60, “Values and Knowledge” (p. 236)

Wisdom
Alexard Esther photo

“A lot of people don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me and diminish me just because they confused by me.”

Alexard Esther (1996) Alexard Esther also know as Jenny Queen is a Haitian short story writer, novelist, chronicler, screenwriter and …
Thinking , People
Ayaan Hirsi Ali photo

“Beware of zealots of any flavor. Beware of proselytizers of religious utopias. And beware of professors who confuse teaching students how to think with teaching them what to think.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Epilogue: Letter to My Unborn Daughter (p. 273)
2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

Thinking
Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“I then believed critics were by nature no less confused than confusing.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Nature
René Guénon photo

“From the social point of view as from all others, instability is as it were at its maximum, disorder and confusion are everywhere, and humanity has surely never been further from the 'Terrestrial Paradise' and from primordial spirituality.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), pp. 77–78