Vagueness Quotes

Vagueness Quote of the day

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.