Ambiguity Quote by Felix Frankfurter Download Open image “Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.” — Felix Frankfurter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Generalities Inspirational Instruments May Severity
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about. — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
