Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. — Sigmund Freud
I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the… — Alan Dershowitz
I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant… — Alan Dershowitz
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in… — Marilyn Hacker
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. — Alexander Haig
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?' — Mohsin Hamid
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. — Herman Melville
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's… — Edward Norton
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again… — Gilda Radner
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. — Robert Redford
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. — Thomas Reid
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the… — Bertrand Russell
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the… — Carl Sandburg
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. — Adam Smith
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. — Skeet Ulrich
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of… — Julian Baggini
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really… — Julian Baggini
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social… — Evgeny Morozov
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the… — Colm Toibin

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