Top 337 Ambiguity Quotes & Sayings

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play, I would be lost ! I need to be solid and know who I really am to have fun in making something else. I noticed, while talking with other actors, that they often let ambiguity float. I don't like ambiguity, it's dangerous. I need distance. I also think that the result would prevent the audience from identifying to the characters. If you feel the things too strongly, you simply close the doors.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will be surprised that all ambiguity disappears. It is a by-product of the chooser's mind, the choosing mind, that creates ambiguity. Otherwise there is no dilemma. Negative and positive are perfectly balancing in life.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.