Vagueness Quotes

He who defends everything defends nothing.

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

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

[Jimmy Carter's] campaign strategy was to remain unclear on all the issues.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said

What I mean is, I don't know what I mean.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

You should not make specific pledges either to the Senate or to the People. Stick to vague generalities.

terminological inexactitude

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.