Clear Quote by Anonymous

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

— Horace

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take…

— Virginia Woolf

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

— Hugh Kingsmill

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe…

— David Hume

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“respectability with overtones of”

— Maeve Binchy

“Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style.”

— Bernard Lewis

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or…

— Jonathan Martin

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public…

— John Ralston Saul