Quotes About Ambiguity

For hours and days he sought out ways to make unintelligible the obvious, and to find for things easily understood an inexplicable basis. --Thoughts on Cezanne

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

I'm real, too. I just don't know, real what.

in this age of great ambiguity and relentless change, so many people cut "ethical corners". Too many people think that dishonesty will get them ahead.

Vincent van Gogh said: 'For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Sort of pregnant. Sort of dead. Sort of Jewish. These are impossibles.

Ä°stediÄŸi zaman gözyaÅŸlar?n? içine ak?t?p gülümseyebilme yeteneÄŸine sahip olmuÅŸtu.Bu yüzden de gözyaÅŸlar?n?n gerçek olup olmad???n? o da anlam?yordu. Oscar'l? bir oyuncu gibiydi.

Russia is a country with unpredictable past.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

There are so many plans, and so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there's only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.

Really. It can't be as bad as all that," she said. "Bad? Good and evil are always mixed up. It provides order.

I could not tell whether it was a double or you playing games. The third possibility did cross my mind, though-that you had duelled in some adjacent area of Shadow for a sufficient time to cast shadows of yourself.

This is because one can never be sure whether wisdom produces or merely locates, and the Prince is wise.

Was that a dark figure ducking behind a windmill tree? Or only the dance of shadows in my shadow-shifting eyes?

By looking at his face, I could no more tell whether he was lying, in whole or in part, than I could learn by scrutinizing the Jack of, say, Diamonds.

He was staring at me as he advanced, no special expression on that face so like my own.