7 Perplexity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Khalil Gibran

Knowledge Beginning Perplexity

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. Brian Greene

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Donald Barthelme

War World Everybody More Troubled Writers Since Been Perplexity Laboratory Than American Formal Much American Writers Painters Second World War Second World War

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. Jose Saramago

Positive Heroes Exhausted Doubt Way More Uncertainty Never Raw Raw Material Almost Until Cliches Because Always Material Provides Perplexity Model Just Just Because Literary Literature Prefer Really Productive Copies Humans Appreciated