Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto
...I am much better now at ambiguities. — Saul Bellow
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good… — Paul Tillich
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not… — Soren Kierkegaard
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. — Graham Nelson
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the… — Richard Lederer
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances,… — Richard Pascale
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that… — Lois Lowry
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements.… — Don McLean
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. — Tony Gilroy
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis -… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. — John Updike
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing â€˜moneyâ€™ with â€˜wealthâ€™â€¦Real… — Henry Hazlitt
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity. — Vernon A. Walters
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black… — Adela Popescu
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about. — Robert Rubin

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