Ambiguity Quotes

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'