be puzzled

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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. Thomas Paine

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. Thomas Edison

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self. Erich Fromm

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