Quotes: Ambiguity

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The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Aldrich Ames

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Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Gene Wolfe

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Thomas Reid

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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Roger von Oech

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John le Carre

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The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he’s writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Kenzaburo Oe

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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig

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