Quotes About Ambiguity

Data is messy, and inference is hard.

anything is possible but probably not that

The past is not necessarily what it was, even though it has already been. The present is chaotic and indeterminate. The ground shifts continually around her feet, and ours. Equally, the future, not yet here, changes into something it was not supposed to be.

Lo peor de las decisiones es que siempre se deben tomar, como mínimo, dos. Y se tome la que se tome, queda la incertidumbre de qué habría sucedido en el caso de tomar la otra.

Era un asunto embrollado: el español era Topete, a quien en el cantón conocíamos como «Eligio», para no tener que decirle Eligio de Puta.

I have known that thing the Greeks knew not uncertainty.

I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.

There is a feeling the body gives the mind of having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like falling without the sense that you are passing through one world, that you could reach another anytime. Instead the real is crossing you, your body an arrival you know is false but can't outrun. And somewhere in between these geese forever entering and these spiders turning back, this astonishing delay, the everyday, takes place.

He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.

Una ambigua insatisfacción —magnánima o mezquina— nos impide reposar. El proyecto actúa como un proyectil para horadar la realidad y ampliarla con lo posible. Ciertamente, la posibilidad puede ser feroz, pero en su origen es esperanzadora.

Nu încape nici o îndoial?,ÅŸi respingerea poate fi umbra unei mângâieri.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress".

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Most people respond automatically to their given circle of representation, and strengthen it by their unconscious allegiance. Since their cultural circle is made of many conflicting drives for their allegiance, their lives are fragmented and ambiguous.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

None of us are either all good or all bad – we're all somewhere in between – but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark…

Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you'll ever have. Someone who'll make all the difference in the world. I just don't know which way it will go. I can't see it, no matter how hard I try.