Quotes About Ambiguity

our greatest enemies are those who are without certainty. The ones with questions, the ones who regard our tidy answers with unquenchable scepticism. Those questions assail us, undermine us. They…agitate. Understand, these dangerous citizens understand that nothing is simple; their stance is the very opposite of naivety. They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world.

We don't even know where we are. What realm is this? What world lies beyond this forest? Cousin, we have nowhere else to go.' 'Nowhere, and anywhere. In the circumstances, Nimander, the former leads to the latter, like reaching a door everyone believes barred, locked tight, and lo, it opens wide at the touch. Nowhere and anywhere are states of mind.

Walk with me on Thieves' Road hear its song underfoot how clear its tone in misstep as it sings you in two

As much as it grieves me to say, there are times when getting what one wants yields nothing but confusion. It turns out that what one wants is in fact not at all what one wants. Worse is when you simply don't know what you want. You'd think death would discard such trials. If only it did.

Self-avowed destinies wear a thousand masks and not one of them truly fits—" "How can they, Hull Beddict, when they're modelled on perfection?

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

Everything was about not-knowing, the whole future, and who could even make sense enough of the past to think they really knew everything and so, knowing everything, know everything to come?

My Queen, neither mortal nor immortal can fathom the mind of an artist. But as a general rule, between two possible answers, choose the more sordid one.' 'Of course. How silly of me.

The things said and the things not said. In the space in between, a thousand worlds.

Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest

The trouble with Ascendants is that they try to rig every game. Of course, we delight in . . . uncertainty." A

You took us, you made us into something, but none of us knows what, or even what for.

The future, my friend, is ever turned away, even when it faces us.

I do not want certainty. In fact, certainty is the one thing I fear the most.

She had a disapproving look that was just a little exaggerated; if you look carefully at that look, you can spot a smile that hangs around its edges and usually draw it out.

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

In the genre of science fiction it is more important to be fruitfully mistaken than dully accurate. That's why we are science fiction writers, not scientists.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather than settle for unsatisfactory but popular answers.

All he could see was a dark king enthroned, surrounded by a lurid indigo light that hurt the eyes. The king held a sword in his hand. Suspended above his head, rather than resting upon it, was a tall crown that entitled a strong golden radiance. There was power in this man, but he seemed evil. Shan thought his face looked as if it was made of frozen lightning. Is this a true king? Shan thought. Am I to conquer him? Or is it my king? Is he part of myself?

Trust you?" Varencienne laughed coldly. "I would as soon trust a shadow on the wind.

Part of him was beautiful, a creative, sensitive soul. But there was another part, a part perhaps hinted at, which I had not yet truly seen.