Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

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
There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Itâ€™s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify… — Epictetus
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Now 'pay equity' has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. Itâ€™s based on the vague notion of 'equal pay for… — Stephen Harper
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and… — Arthur Koestler

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