Ambiguity Quotes

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.