Baffle Quotes

“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.”

“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.”

“Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.”

“You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane. You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain. My senses are mad, Skewed judgment to blame.You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)”

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

“... Desire baffles knowledge and power.”

“Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”

“I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.”

“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.”

“Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.”