Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them.… — Sue Wicks Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them in not particular, and planet is dissimilar… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain… — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity. — Kevin Sparks Copy Share Image
We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that. — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity. — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
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