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Tag Name "Ambiguity" (152)

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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.
Hamid-Reza Assefi
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Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.
Frank Herbert
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A blur of great magic is still just a blur.
Ken Weber
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I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.
Richard Lugar
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
Lionel Trilling
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
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One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.
Philip M. Condit
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I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.
John Pfahl
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This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
Terence McKenna
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We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.
Robert Redford
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
John Updike
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
Milan Kundera
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Terence McKenna
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Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
William Safire
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In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Robert James Waller
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This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.
Jim Blinn
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Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.
Rob Delaney
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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 I hate it even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.
John Hodgman
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell
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