Confuse Quotes

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

Never confuse movement with action.

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.