Quotes about Ambiguity

When I was hired, I was urged] not to seek a clear definition of what I'd be doing because that would also make it clear what I was not supposed to do. Be careful not to define yourself out of an interesting job.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling

For nothing was simply one thing.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.

She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, Let me come with you, and he laughed. He meant yes or no - either perhaps. But it was not his meaning - it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, I don't care. He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her...

This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.

When we are not sure, we are alive.