Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in… — Thomas Hardy 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
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell 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
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display. — Jean Ingelow 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
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian 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
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer 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
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer 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
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
