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Quotes About Ambiguity

The color of truth is gray.
~ James Patterson
We're on our way. I don't know.
~ James Patterson
House, we'd been told. If I needed any further indication of what
~ James Patterson
to tell about that for sure yet.
~ James Patterson
There are more on my list, and we'll get to them eventually. Or maybe not. I'm not exactly sure how this is going to work out. As you can probably tell, this is my first full-length book.
~ James Patterson
Anyone who says they know what I'll do next is full of shit 'cause even I don't know what I'll do next.
~ James Patterson
If!" Tox spat. "If, if, if. You know how many miserable fucking losers have driven themselves into the ground trying to chase down ifs?
~ James Patterson
I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.
~ John Hillcoat
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
~ James Q. Wilson
Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.
~ Tibor Fischer
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
~ Brian Greene
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
~ Arthur Eddington
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
~ Francis Picabia
The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.
~ James Spader
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
~ Taryn Simon
I would like to pass unknown in the company. I would like people to ask, 'What did Maurizio Gucci do?' And answer, 'Nothing. Gucci was always like that.'
~ Maurizio Gucci
To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
~ Rachel Cusk
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
~ Gretchen Mol
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
~ Anthony Sampson
I like the unknown. I like mystery.
~ Eric Bana
Every movie is unknown.
~ Ang Lee
Design is an unknown.
~ Geoffrey Beene
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
~ Nate Silver