Obscurity Quotes

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Battle against obscurity.

— Robert Henri

Obscurity is never a virtue.

— Roald Dahl

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

— Carrie Fisher

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

— Seth Godin

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

— Luc de Clapiers

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

— Grant Cardone

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

— Daryl Hall

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

— Neil Gaiman

“One cannot see from the clouded sky, even the sky is close to the eyes.”

— Suman Pokhrel

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

— George Chapman

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

— Peter Webber

“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.”

— Jason Fried

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

— Mark Twain

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

— Ovid

“Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution…

— Igor Markevitch

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in…

— Thomas Hardy

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much…

— Protagoras

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an…

— Joseph Addison

“You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and…

— Israelmore Ayivor

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows…

— Claude Bernard

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more…

— Pete Cashmore

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

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscurity, often it is intellectual, as…

— Abhijit Naskar

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most…

— Joseph Addison

I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others…

— Lord Chesterfield

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language…

— Kenny Smith

The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it…

— Gail Carriger

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our social and professional demands keep our mind highly active, absorbing most of our attention. Cluttering of mind obscures the higher Self.…

— Dhruva Bhargava

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several…

— Oliver Cromwell

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in…

— Samuel Johnson

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this…

— Cathleen Falsani