I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes. — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sightings of shape shifting dissolved into the darkness. A final opinion is of less value than an appreciation of, and tolerance for… — Chiodos Copy Share Image
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things:… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from… — Dan Piraro Copy Share Image
Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most… — Coventry Patmore 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
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity. — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton 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
In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity. — Kevin Sparks Copy Share Image
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
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