Quotes About Ambiguity

Teaching students to value literary masterpieces is our best hope of awakening them to the infinite capacities and complexities of human experience, of helping them acknowledge and accept complexity and ambiguity, and of making them love and respect the language that allows us to smuggle out, and send one another, our urgent, eloquent dispatches from the prison of self.

Me dijeron que era usted médico, pero con tal de que sea un gato me da igual

Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

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

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

What have we here—jinn or human?

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.

Cualquier camino que se sigue con exactitud hasta el fin, conduce con la misma exactitud a ninguna parte. Escalad la montaña solo un poco para comprobar que es una montaña. Desde la cima, no podréis ver la montaña».

Cualquier camino, si se sigue hasta el fin, no conduce exactamente a ningún lugar. Escalad tan sólo un poco la montaña para comprobar si es una montaña. Desde la cima de la montaña, no podréis ver la montaña.»

Ali u istini je uvijek sadržana dvozna?nost rije?i kojima se ona izražava.

O conhecimento é uma aventura interminável na borda da incerteza.

But the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe undergoes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then believe the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Bir karara varamamak ba?l? ba??na bir karard?.

Well now, whose feint am I?

The unknown brings its own worries,' he said.

Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

because none of you know what you want follow me because I'm not going anywhere I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams

before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

Andy Devine had a thong rind It was sublime but the wrong kind Have I aligned with a blown mind? Wasted my time on a drawn blind?

Please — consider me a dream.