Quotes about Vague Statements

Gad Saad

One of the ways by which astrology tricks human brains is via the Barnum effect, which is the process by which individuals take general and vague statements that could apply to anyone and anywhere, and find personal meaning in them.

Linda Greenhouse

Congress doesn’t quite speak clearly much of the time.

One of the reasons that judges and government officials have much difficulty in enforcing and interpreting laws is that the laws themselves are often very vague and/or ambiguous. Often this is the result of a political compromise or one part of a law being at odds with another written be a different legislators. Also, this is a way of Congress avoiding tough issues—every member can say what it is that he/she voted for and the vagueness allows their opponents to claim that it means just the opposite. The Executive and Judicial Branches then have to resolve the issue.

Jeb Bush

People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.

Charles Dickens

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Rashida Jones

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Joss Whedon

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Claude C. Hopkins

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

Freeman Dyson

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Eugene Ormandy

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Michel de Montaigne

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

The Atlantic

To the rule that Presidential messages are usually excellent studies in the art of saying nothing unforeseen or unexpected, we have not found the late message of General Grant an exception.

The reference was to President Ulysses S. Grant’s message to Congress which was particularly candid, substantive, and specific.

Edward Gorey

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Vague Statements Quotes