Puzzling Quotes

• Por regla general, dijo Holmes, cuanto más extraña es una cosa, menos misteriosa resulta ser. Son los crímenes comunes y corrientes, sin rasgos distintivos, los realmente desconcertantes, del mismo modo que un rostro corriente es el más difícil de identificar.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literatura, Caras, Misterioso

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). "Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes", p.43

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• La verdad llama a la puerta y dices, vete, estoy buscando la verdad, y se va. Desconcertante.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Verdad, Ciencia, Descubrimiento

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values", p.6, Harper Collins

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• There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Artist, Shoes, Boots

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  El mundo es un lugar muy desconcertante. Si no estás dispuesto a dejarte desconcertar, te conviertes en una réplica de la mente de otra persona.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, World, Willing

  "Animating Noam Chomsky: French Director Michel Gondry on New Film “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?". Interview with Michel Gondry, www.democracynow.org. December 3, 2013.

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• El arte de la simplicidad es un rompecabezas de complejidad.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• Y el Grinch, con sus pies de Grinch helados en la nieve, se quedó perplejo y desconcertado, ¿cómo podía ser así? Venía sin cintas. Llegó sin etiquetas. Venía sin paquetes, cajas o bolsas. Y él desconcertado y desconcertado hasta que su rompecabezas estaba dolorido. Entonces el Grinch pensó en algo que no había pensado antes. ¿Y si la Navidad, pensó, no viene de una tienda. ¿Y si la Navidad, tal vez, significa un poco más.

  Dr. Seuss

  Navidad, Vacaciones, Media

  Dr. Seuss (1995). "Seis de Seuss", Prop Pub Juv

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• La verdad puede ser desconcertante. Puede que haya que esforzarse para comprenderla. Puede ser contraintuitiva. Puede contradecir prejuicios profundamente arraigados. Puede no estar en consonancia con lo que desesperadamente queremos que sea verdad. Pero nuestras preferencias no determinan la verdad.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Prejudice, Vastness

  "Wonder and Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), www.csicop.org. January/February 1995.

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• The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Political, Politics, Constitution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

  Frederick Buechner

  World, Matter, Sake

  Frederick Buechner (1981). "La oscuridad hambrienta"

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• I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

  Billy Joel

  Honor, Criticism, Sometimes

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• For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Garden, Giving, Mind

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• What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Running, Husband, Together

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

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• In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thoughtful, People, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”

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• While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Enough, Whole, Seeing

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Fall, Eye, Appreciate

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• When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

  Carl Bereiter

  Government, Organization, Common Sense

  Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge

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• Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so call good image guy and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Giving, Guy, Marketing

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  Amy Waldman

  Powerful, Coffee, Writing

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• People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?

  Neil Postman

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.13, Penguin

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• Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

  Gregory Bateson

  Communication, Winning, Doe

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.201, University of Chicago Press

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• It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Liars, Doors

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• The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  World, Way, Lasts

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). "Civilización y ética. 3ª ed"

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• On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

  Christopher Alexander

  Block, Space, Different

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

  Randall Jarrell

  Half, Way, Novel

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 46, 1969.

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