Definition of Confuse

Confuse

Mixed; confounded.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

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Confuse Quotations

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
Christian Bale

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
Chloe Sevigny

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
Luciano Pavarotti

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
Nicole Polizzi

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg

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Confuse Translations

confuse in Afrikaans is verwar
confuse in Danish is forvirre
confuse in Dutch is dooreenhalen, van zijn stuk brengen
confuse in French is permuter, confondre
confuse in German is verwechseln
confuse in Italian is scambiare
confuse in Latin is turbo, confundo
confuse in Portuguese is confunda
confuse in Spanish is trastrocar, equivocar

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