Best Vagueness Quotes
33 Vagueness quotes by 32 unique authors
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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
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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