Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 172 authors

Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies.… — Louis Althusser
If it doesnâ€™t have ambiguity, donâ€™t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photographyâ€”the mendacity of photographyâ€”itâ€™s got to have some kind… — Sally Mann
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. — Ron Carlson
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and… — Nisio Isin
I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with… — Richard Kalvar
Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality. — Joseph Pearce
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of… — Tony Blair
You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are… — Pope Francis
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… — Jean Baudrillard
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity… — Derek Bok
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other… — William Stringfellow
But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and… — Philipp Melanchthon
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge,… — Tucker Max
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. — Scott Turow
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually… — Saul Bass
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity… — Robert J. Havighurst
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. — Terry Eagleton

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