Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. — Paul Vixie
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in… — Thomas Cech
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and… — Ralph W. Moss
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even… — Unknown Author
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal… — Roger Caillois
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer… — Everett Ruess
I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved… — Everett Ruess
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts… — Parley P. Pratt
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy… — Jimmy Sangster
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of… — Carl Sagan
Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but… — Plato
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound… — Bai Juyi
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to… — Themistocles
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set… — Leonard Cohen
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his… — Thomas Merton
It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen… — Laini Taylor
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to… — Seneca the Younger
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the… — Anatole France
[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I… — William J. Clinton
Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There… — Ted Andrews
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer. — Vincent de Paul
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure,… — Blaise Pascal
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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