bewilderment

Noun

Meaning

The state of being bewildered.

A bewildering tangle or confusion.

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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment. Miyamoto Musashi

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. Rumi

Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light; Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist; Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist. Gwendolyn Brooks

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void. Miyamoto Musashi

I have read Schopenhauer at the age of twelve with no bewilderment and no contempt of his contempt for the world and its strange inhabitants, and no contempt for the strange inhabitant himself. William Saroyan

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