Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation… — Oskar Schlemmer
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled… — Stan Getz
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world. — Emile M. Cioran
On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a… — Rand Paul
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain… — Crispin Glover
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a… — Graham Swift
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than… — Henry Ward Beecher
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional… — Joseph Stalin
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not… — George Saunders
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need… — Albert Camus
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have… — Adam Schiff
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively… — Christopher Dawson
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. — Michael K. Powell
It is better to be wrong than to be vague. — Freeman Dyson
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets… — John Stuart Mill
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. — George Eliot

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