Best Vagueness Quotes

33 Vagueness quotes by 32 unique authors

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. — Hector Hugh Munro
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,… — Virginia Woolf
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than… — Diane Ackerman
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly… — William James
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it,… — Claes Oldenburg

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