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
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 extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. — John Rawls 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 defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell 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
“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
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know… — Sebastian Horsley 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