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
“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness” — Albert Camus 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
“Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“And much like yours, its vagueness left to different interpretations, which led to war after war.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are… — Anonymous 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
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf 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
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,… — Eudora Welty 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
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
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
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The policies that Hillary [Clinton] advocates are going to be more of the same, whether you're looking at her cozy relationships with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Vagueness about numbers is a curse of the public sector. In the worst cases it borders on the criminal. Challenged to find… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
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
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
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
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks 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
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