120 Quotes About Ambiguity

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

The woman hangs from the 13th floor window crying forthe lost beauty of her own life. She sees thesun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago.She thinks she remembers listening to her own lifebreak loose, as she falls from the 13th floorwindow on the east side of Chicago, or as sheclimbs back up to claim herself again.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.And if I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, “Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?

Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose.

CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.