Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something… — Louise Wilson
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought… — Oscar Wilde
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and… — Albert Einstein
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to… — Peter D. Mitchell
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming… — Ernest Hemingway
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore… — Neal A. Maxwell
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization… — John Mott
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are more beautiful when they're obscure. — Veda Hille
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying… — Stephen Batchelor
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes.… — Cheryl Hines
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it… — Aaron Tveit
When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places,… — Aziz Ansari

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