Quotes About Ambiguity

Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.

The very fact that we don't know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power.

It seems that whenever there's a word for something everyone agrees to be desirable—"truth," "beauty," "love," "democracy"—then there will be no consensus as to what it really means.

Dean Rusk was a man without a shadow.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

it is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

this question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.

Reading the stories was like trying to make out an object through the refracted light of a heavy snowstorm. He could see the snowflakes, immediate and particular, and he could discern the more distant objects that were coated in white: trees, roofs, roads, buildings. But he couldn't actually see any particular object for itself, only the covered outlines.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Perhaps real "faith" involves seeing ambiguity not as an enemy, but as a vital part of the journey.

If we frame every situation in terms of right and wrong, we never have to wrestle with complexity; if we define the world in narrow bands of black and white, we don't have to parse out endless shades of gray.

When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person?

I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

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

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

Either a beast or a god.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

I had hoped God would be neutral.