The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. — John Rawls 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
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog… — Sinclair Lewis 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
Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it… — Yasunari Kawabata 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
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
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
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
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James 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
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
“[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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“[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/i/080/arthur-stinchcombe-151940_clarity_f-or-a-social-theorist-ignorance-is-more_869466.jpg)
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