Ambiguity Quote by Thomas Hobbes

“The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace… And, on…

— Thomas Hobbes

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the…

— Adam Smith

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

— Mary L. Trump

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