Quotes About Ambiguity

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. Sometimes I think these pretenses at authoritative knowledge are failures of language: the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before the way is found or followed.

You can't assume that you know why what you're doing matters. You can't at least declare failure immediately, because consequences are not always direct, or immediate, or obvious, and the indirect consequences matter.

Nearly all of us would like to be at the end of the story, because to live in the middle of it is to live in suspense and uncertainty about what will happen.

Sometimes I think these pretenses at authoritative knowledge are failures of language: the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity and speculation.

Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't...the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity and speculation.

Or perhaps walking should be called movement, not travel, for one can walk in circles or travel around the world immobilized in a seat, and a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. It is the movement as well as the sights going by that seems to make things happen in the mind, and this is what makes walking ambiguous and endlessly fertile: it is both means and end, travel and destination.

By now you've noticed that Woolf says "I don't know" quite a lot.

We don't know what is going to happen, or how, or when, and that very uncertainty is the space of hope.

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?

Everything above may be wrong!

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

Éste es el precio que se paga por ser el incomprendido; te llaman demonio o te llaman dios.

Everything in this book may be wrong

Bu kitaptaki her ?ey yanl?? olabilir.

There's no way to tell bad news from good as it's happening. We'll find out which the moment we realize, long-term, it's all good.

The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Suskunluk kabiliyeti, baz? ÅŸeyleri kesebilirken baz? ÅŸeyleri kesemeyen bir b?çak gibi belirsiz bir keskinlikle birleÅŸiyor. Bir ÅŸeftaliyi kesebilir ama bir elmay? kesemez.

It would have compromised his basic approach to life which was to have it as confusing, labyrinth-laden and fucked up as possible.

Good work,' he said, and went out the door. What work ? We never saw him before. There was no door.