Quotes with ambiguity

  • Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barry Eisler I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Gilda Radner Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
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  • Adam Smith On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Billy Collins People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Thomas Reid There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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