Confusion
The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.
Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
One who confuses; a confounder.
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Confusion Quotations
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp
Confusion Translations
confusion in Dutch is verwardheid, verwarring
confusion in German is Verschmelzung, Verwechslung, Unordnung
confusion in Italian is garbuglio, quiproquo, viluppo
confusion in Latin is turbatio, confusio
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