Vague Quotes

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

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

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

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

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.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

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

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

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

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