None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“And much like yours, its vagueness left to different interpretations, which led to war after war.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.” — Aesop Copy Share Image
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their… — Sarah Smiley Copy Share Image
“The specifics of what, exactly, these terms meant were never explained; as with any fantasy, vagueness was part of the appeal.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not,… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
