Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 172 authors

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.… — Tom Robbins
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact,… — Joan Anderson
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock… — Maria Popova
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves… — Pema Chodron
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within… — Unknown Author
When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities. — Anita Moorjani
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that… — Manu Joseph
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations… — William J. Brennan
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and… — William Kentridge
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things… — William Kentridge
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward de Bono
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience,… — Craig Lucas
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity. — Richard Rohr
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker

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