Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. — Frank Herbert
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer… — John Green
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my… — Anais Nin
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. — E L Doctorow
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the… — Giorgio Agamben
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that… — Pema Chodron
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another. — Paul Fussell
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien
Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the… — Julia Kristeva
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you… — John Green
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in… — Banana Yoshimoto
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us… — Terence McKenna
You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to… — Frank Herbert
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most… — Thomas Mann
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities,… — Jacqueline Carey

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