Confuse Quotes

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.

Never confuse movement with action.

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.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

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.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.