Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system… — Arthur Balfour
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted… — Alistair Begg
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. — Grace Slick
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future… — Edward R. Murrow
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways… — Saint Augustine
How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world, and Paul would… — Ann Coulter
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. — Lou Reed
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri. — Parley P. Pratt
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure. — Horace
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. — Horace
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the… — Nicolas Chamfort
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… — Thomas Carlyle
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting… — Craig Claiborne
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself… — Henri Frederic Amiel
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. — Dennis Potter
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. — Don DeLillo
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes… — Tawfiq al-Hakim
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and… — Jonathan Raban
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. — Meghan O'Rourke
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in… — Sonny Rollins

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