Quotes About Ambiguity

What the neutral zone is and why it exists can be seen in figure 4.1. It is a time when all the old clarities break down and everything is in flux. Things are up in the air. Nothing is a given anymore, and anything could happen. No one knows the answers: one person says one thing and someone else says something completely different.

Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.

was not made clear in the Treaty.

Imagine then, by miracle, with me,(Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be)What could not possibly be there,And learn a style from a despair.

An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful. I propose to use the word in an extended sense, and shall think relevant to my subject any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.

the machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

As for the immediate importance of the study of ambiguity, it would be easy enough to take up an alarmist attitude, and say that the English language needs nursing by the analyst very badly indeed. Always rich and dishevelled, it is fast becoming very rich and dishevelled…

There was something mystic about crossroads, they doubled the options, confused both pursuer and pursued.

We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.

The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.

When all is said and done, there are only two kinds of investors: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third kind: those who know they don't know, but whose livelihoods depend on appearing to know.

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

Some critics may say Noonday was mad. He was not. Toweringly weird, yes--mad, no. He saw that in five years he would attain the Presidency of the University. Form there he could embark on a career leading straight to the White House, that High Seat of the Lie, open only to holders of the Third Degree of Falsehood.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For her, the story was sinuous and unclear, and if there was happiness to be had, it might arrive announced, or it might land in the arms of another person.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Copenhagen interpretation Niels Bohr's combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality.

And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.

Indeed, there are some mysteries that must exist without answer. In the end we must accept them for what they are: complex and many-sided, ornamented with clues and theories, yet ultimately unknowable—like life itself.

Nació en un páramo. Era un niñita nacida envuelta en un cuerpo de niño en un páramo

Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

Elle veut lui dire qu'on peut être à la fois heureux et perdu.

S?r?s sl?pjas k?ds pretrun?gs sp?ks, visvarens sp?ks, kas liek cilv?kam vienlaikus tiekties p?c p?rmai??m un taj? paš? laik? pieprasa no vi?a patolo?isku uztic?bu pag?tnei.