It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever… — Bennett Madison Copy Share Image
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
