Vagueness Quotations

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

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

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

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?

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

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

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...

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.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness your foresight will become a nimble vagrant.

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.

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.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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