Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

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
It’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. It’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
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry… — Leo Lionni
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. — Siri Hustvedt
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large,… — A. R. Ammons
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams… — Paul Lockhart
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,… — Julius Evola
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… — J L Austin
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly… — Raymond Smullyan
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for… — Mira Sorvino
After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense,… — Jeremy Silman
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics. — Imre Lakatos
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained… — Unknown Author
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the… — Ernest Cline
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the… — John Deacon
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is… — Grant Wood
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask… — Henry Bessemer
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others.… — Gertrude Stein

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