Vagueness Quotes

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

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.

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.