Ambiguity Quote by William Zinsser

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

— J. L. Austin

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

— Janna Levin

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

— Erin McKean

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

— Margaret Heffernan

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

“A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in place are unable to normalize and repress them.…

— Jacques Attali

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

— Alfred Korzybski

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up.

— Hayden Panettiere

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

— Jack Prelutsky

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp