Vagueness Quotes
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The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
— John Rawls
This was a fight the likes of which only existed in fiction, a war that was black and white and had no vagueness in where the line was drawn.
— Evan Currie
Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.
— Rabindranath Tagore
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
— George F. Will
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
— Norbert Wiener
Such mental haziness is in order, given the delightful vagueness of the terrain.
— William T. Vollmann
I didn't like it when other people criticized Laura - her vagueness, her simplicity, her feckleness. Criticism of Laura was reserved for me.
— Margaret Atwood
I love the vagueness of words that involve time.
— David Levithan
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
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
An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.
— David Salsburg
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
— Alexander Theroux
But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea.
— Soseki Natsume
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
The vague is the false.
— Marty Rubin
Front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the Common, and as I passed it I heard in
— Henry James
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
A masterpiece of vagueness.
— Kenneth Oppel
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
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
— Sebastian Faulks
Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.
— E. M. Forster
The writer who has a definite meaning to express will not take refuge in such vagueness.
— William Strunk Jr.
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
— Judith Martin
A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
— George Orwell
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
— Bertrand Russell
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
— G.K. Chesterton