Vagueness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
-- Bernard Levin -
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
-- Charles Ives -
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
-- Edmund White -
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
-- J. L. Austin -
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
-- John Rawls -
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
-- Sebastian Faulks -
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
-- Stendhal -
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.
-- William Zinsser
