Quoty search results for tag: confusion http://www.quoty.org/tag/confusion Satan's masterpiece of counterfeiting is the doctrine that there are only two choices, and he will show us what they are.  It is true that there are only two ways, but by pointing us the way he wants us to take and then showing us a fork in that road, he convinces us that we are making the vital choice, when actually we are choosing between branches in his road.  Which one we take makes little difference to him, for both lead to destruction. This is the polarization we find in our world today. Thus we have the choice between Shiz and Coriantumr -- which all Jaredites were obliged to make. We have the choice between the wicked Lamanites (and they were that) and the equally wicked (Mormon says "more wicked") Nephites. Or between the fleshpots of Egypt and the stews of Babylon, or between the land pirates and the sea pirates of World War I, of between white supremacy and black supremacy, or between Vietnam and Cambodia, or between Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers, or between China and Russia, or between Catholic and Protestant, or between fundamentalist and atheist, or between right and left -- all of which are true rivals, who hate each other.  A very clever move by Satan! -- a subtlety that escapes most us most of the time.

Author: Hugh Nibley, Source: Approaching Zion, p. 112-3
Saved by cboyack in politics devil satan choice error confusion dialectic opposite polarity ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3850I feel a strong desire to tell you–and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me–which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs–pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

Author: C.S. Lewis, Source: Mere Christianity, Book 4, Chapter 6
Saved by cboyack in politics devil satan choice error confusion dialectic opposite polarity ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3849Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Conference Report, Oct. 1961
Saved by cboyack in politics truth information knowledge activism error deceit confusion ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3393Author: Sir Isaac Newton, Source: unknown
Saved by bluesfreak in confusion truths ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3000Author: Daniel Boone, Source: unknown
Saved by bluesfreak in confusion lost admission ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/2782Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses 8:125
Saved by Doc in materialism property confusion stewardship babylon conservationism ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1917
In the long run, the truth is its own most powerful advocate. The Lord uses imperfect people. He often allows their errors to stand uncorrected. He may have a purpose in doing so, such as to teach us that religious truth comes forth "line upon line, precept upon precept" in a process of sifting and winnowing similar to the one I know so well in science.

Author: Henry B Eyring, Source: Reflections of a Scientist (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983), 47.
Saved by Doc in religion truth science confusion paradox ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1846Author: J. Edgar Hoover, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in liberty fight information ignorance war media news propaganda will knowledge confusion ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1556