Quotes About Ambiguity

It's difficult to get attached to preferences like lesbian or straight when you don't know the gender of the person you are flirting with.

Always keep 'em guessing.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

There are prisons within prisons, and skins within skins. You can't always see who someone is just by looking in his eyes. Sometimes, others are there.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

But I begin to wonder if he also doesn't have a demented sense of humor, and thinks it's fun to throw wild shit our way.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. —Charles Kettering (1876–1958), American inventor, holder of 300 patents, including electrical ignition for automobiles There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. —Thomas Reid (1710–1769), Scottish philosopher

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

News comes from nowhere.

If the answer isn't clear to you, you're not alone—even mathematicians argue about what it means to assign a probability to a single event.

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Real life seems to have no plots.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.