When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“(Regarding a twenty-questions game:) Did you know that the Russian composer Aram Katchaturian described his ‘Sabre Dance’ as no more than a… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscurity, often it is intellectual, as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim 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
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake 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
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson 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
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
