Quotes About Ambiguity

He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.

He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which one of his selves was the authentic, if any.

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

Absolute certainity might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up

The journey of life is confusing, you can always see where you have come from but you can't see where you are going.....Its blurred.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

You should know that The Lost History of Dreams isn't about dreams or 'chimera of wonder,' as the pilgrims claim. Nor is it about love. It's about the ambitions and hopes that plague us in life, which we end up regretting." She shot Robert a meaningful glare. "Now go.

Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability—a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.

Do you like this? I click on the attachment. It's a slightly blurry picture, but of what, I'm not sure. A…a tree, maybe, though it doesn't look so healthy. It looks diseased, moist and soft. There's a knothole that looks damp and sick. Whatever it is, I can't imagine why someone would be sending it to Adam. He doesn't know anything about trees.

The main thing I sense is...darkness." As soon as the words were out I realized how awful they sounded, so I rushed to clarify, "But it's not a bad darkness. It's more like a warm-summer-night kind of darkenss, not the monster-under-the-bed kind of darkness.

Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we cannot constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend.

from within their thicket of nowhere left to hide

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Most people do not act consistently.

One place is as good as another, in the valley without exit...

The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.

When we seek a sure foundation on which to base decisions about our actions and thoughts, we find that a sure foundation does not exist. We do not even know whether we actually need such a foundation. We continue to make use of vague, uncertain ideas, precisely in those areas that most deeply concern us. What we call "irrational" is the code name for what we don't understand well about ourselves given the limits of our own intelligence.

We usually speak of probability when we do not have all the data.