Ambiguity Quotes

"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague." "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." "The less you reveal, the more people can wonder." "Time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana" "Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question." "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." "Fair is foul, and foul is fair " "If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat." "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy" "The gray area, the place between black and white—that's the place where life happens" "There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined." "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity" "Uncertainty keeps desire alive." "One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like" "The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure." "Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually"