Quotes About Ambiguity

As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true. System 2 is capable of doubt, because it can maintain incompatible possibilities at the same time.

In areas that involve vague criteria and complex judgments, intrarater reliability, as it is called, can be poor.

the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to them.

In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true.

you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend.

objective ignorance accumulates steadily the further you look into the future.

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I sat still, my head down, staring at a spot between the numbered tiles. I could feel his inquisitive brown eyes on me. Finally, I shrugged and said, 'I don't know.

How do you know when it's me?" "Your footsteps are apologetic?" "What does that mean?" She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure.

But" is a three-letter stroke of genius. It keeps things in perspective. It prevents me from turning too rigid and self-righteous. It reminds me that hardly anything in life is black or white.

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

In those years, I felt myself to be incomplete—a gray blur, a body in motion, forever galloping toward completion—half a girl, half-caste, half-mast, and half-baked, not quite ready for consumption.

But you and I are the only ones who know we'll never get there, that nothing is ever over. I feel like I'm always falling. I've been falling without landing

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

the living world—this ambiguous realm that we experience in anger and joy, in grief and in love—is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity.

The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls forth feelings from me in turn.

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable.