Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Interpretation
Confusion often signifies depth of understanding and awareness of complexity.
This quote by Edward R. Murrow suggests that true comprehension of complex situations involves recognizing their ambiguity and uncertainty. If someone claims to fully understand without any confusion, they may not be perceiving the nuances and intricacies present in the reality of the situation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about leadership challenges.
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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