Quotes About Ambiguity

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

Well, she can't have it both ways, can she? Just like a woman to want it, though.

Are we alike In that in-betweenness? Can he see, When I smile my blue eyes back At his brown ones, The country-city-woman-girl Dancer, student Bewildered Unbelonging Yearning?

But I don't really know where to go. I have no plans and no destination in mind - I feel I can't live in either of my two worlds...

I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The color of truth is gray.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

the truth is often a mixed message

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Something lurked inside the truth.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.