Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

Doubt breeds doubt.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Purity is obscurity.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.