Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. — John Updike Copy Share Image
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell 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
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks 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
“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
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up… — Edgar Degas 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
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
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
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
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
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
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
“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
William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently… — Arthur Stinchcombe Copy Share Image
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in… — Julia Cameron 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
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
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations… — Eugene Delacroix 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
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell 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
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
![“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I…” quote by Arthur Stinchcombe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/080/arthur-stinchcombe-151940_clarity_f-or-a-social-theorist-ignorance-is-more_869466.jpg)
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