Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is… — Rajneesh
A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility. — Kim Du-han
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J L Austin
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you… — G. Alan Marlatt
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Unknown Author
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on… — Peter Singer
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,… — Shakti Gawain
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. — William Butler Yeats
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line… — David Hilbert
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was… — Kevin Carson
A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going… — Ewan McGregor
It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at… — David Cross
One must confront vague ideas with clear images, — Jean-Luc Godard
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. — Katie Roiphe
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells… — Teresa of Avila
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by… — Teju Cole

Who Wrote These Vague Quotes

357 authors contributed a total of 416 Vague Quotes, led by these top contributors: