David Means

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

American Writer

Jose Saramago

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.

Portuguese Writer

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

American Scientist

Frank Deford

The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.

John Adams

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.

American President

Brian Greene

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.

American Physicist

Hannah Arendt

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

German Historian

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

English Writer

Robert E. Lee

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

American General

Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Lebanese Poet

Perplexity often shows someone is emotionally unsettled because they're confused.

Emotional Tone

Use 'perplexity' when describing temporary confusion, not long-term misunderstanding.

Temporary Confusion

Perplexity is often shown by facial expressions. Look for puzzled looks.

Visual Indicators

'Great perplexity' suggests a higher level of complexity than simply 'perplexity'.

Complexity Scale

Use 'perplexity' when something requires analysis to be understood, not just explanation.

Analytical Challenge

Perplexity can describe a problem's aspect, suggesting a need for problem-solving skills.

Problem-Solving Context

 Now with all this beauty, usefulness and wealth, mathematics does look more sexy. But don't you think that the life a mathematical researcher is an easy one. It is filled with perplexity, frustration,