Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 172 authors

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre
The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its… — William Thompson
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of… — John Updike
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. — Matina Horner
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;… — Richard Hamming
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity. — Paul Tillich
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will… — Rajneesh
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity. — Helena Rubinstein
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in… — John Green
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human… — Ralph Ellison
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,… — Harold Lasswell
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can… — Gene Wolfe
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails… — Stephen Batchelor
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. — Keith Richards
American movie audiences now just donâ€™t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or… — Steven Soderbergh
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and… — Le Corbusier
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler

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