Baffled Quotes

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.