Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was… — Charles Caleb Colton
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public… — Stan Brakhage
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of… — Hugh MacLennan
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had… — Jehan Sadat
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body,… — Henri Poincare
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on… — Henning Mankell
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases… — George Polya
Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood… — Jerry Stahl
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say… — C. Wright Mills
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing… — Errol Morris
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to… — Ronald Fisher
When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it… — Mary Alice
Obscure, like muddy waters. — Laozi
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind… — Margaret Halsey
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men,… — Archibald Rutledge
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the… — Susan Griffin
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going… — Barry Hughart
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL… — Rebecca Solnit
When the situation is obscure, attack — Heinz Guderian
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against… — Reuben Archer Torrey
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Unknown Author
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of… — Dick Cheney
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer… — Douglas Rushkoff

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