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Quotes about Ambiguity

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
— Andy Stanley
God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling
— Norman Geisler
For nothing was simply one thing.
— Virginia Woolf
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
— Virginia Woolf
To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.
— Virginia Woolf
She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, Let me come with you, and he laughed. He meant yes or no - either perhaps. But it was not his meaning - it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, I don't care. He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her...
— Virginia Woolf
This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.
— Virginia Woolf
When we are not sure, we are alive.
— Graham Greene
Startups often have to do dubious things.
— Paul Graham
When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
— Cormac McCarthy
Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.
— Cormac McCarthy
If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
— Cormac McCarthy