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  • Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. -- Charles Ives
  • Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. -- Stendhal
  • Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. -- John Updike
  • I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. -- Wilfred Owen
  • Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. -- Bernard Levin
  • 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. -- Richard Owen
  • 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. -- Amelia Barr
  • We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. -- John Bates Clark
  • A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. -- Sebastian Faulks
  • Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. -- Norbert Wiener
  • A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people -- Edgar Degas
  • 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. -- Sinclair Lewis
  • 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. -- Eugene Delacroix
  • You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. -- Walt Whitman
  • It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul. -- Sarah Smiley
  • Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man... -- Edmund White
  • Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go. -- Yasunari Kawabata
  • You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control. -- Frederick Lenz
  • 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. -- Bertrand Russell
  • An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? -- Sebastian Horsley
  • Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
  • 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. -- William Zinsser
  • Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? -- Sebastian Horsley
  • Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
  • My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses. -- Claes Oldenburg
  • When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. -- Steven Pinker
  • Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. -- Alexander Theroux
  • None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. -- Bertrand Russell
  • The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. -- John Rawls
  • 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. -- Hector Hugh Munro
  • 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.... -- Augustus William Hare
  • 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. -- Eudora Welty
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