Ambiguity Quotes · Page 4

“Give me ambiguity or something else.”

— Lynne Sears Williams

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

— Ben Brantley

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

— Richard Rohr

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

— Twyla Tharp

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

— Emo Philips

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

— Saul Bellow

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

— Paul Fussell

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

— Pema Chodron

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

— Roger Rees

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

— Anonymous

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

— Alessandro Michele

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

— John Updike

“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”

— Carl Jung

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.

— Jed Mercurio

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

I like a challenging comic as much as the next guy but I feel like I am pretty conservative when it comes…

— Charles Forsman

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to…

— Sally Mann

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,…

— Don DeLillo

Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads…

— Maria Popova

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those…

— Teju Cole

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

— Brad Warner

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in…

— Eve Ensler

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when…

— Hilary Mantel

If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities…

— Edward Condon

Every worldview has its ambiguities - debatable elements that people simply will not see to eye on. There's nothing wrong with that…

— Greg Koukl

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the…

— Meg Greenfield

This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there…

— Eve Ensler

Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better…

— Steve Pavlina

“As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent…

— Daniel Kahneman

“best solutions often come when you allow yourself to get comfortable with ambiguity.”

— Dan Harris

“Perched upon the razors edge of ambiguity sits the words. Friendship, Trust, Forever, Love, Truth.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

— Anonymous

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

“I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.”

— Aesop

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

— Mason Cooley

“Nobody knows what will happen after five minutes later! Strangely, this ambiguity makes life very interesting!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

— Frank Herbert

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

— Steven Furtick