Obscurity Quotes

193 quotes by 172 authors

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any… — Tallulah Bankhead
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… — Samuel Johnson
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the… — David Hume
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches,… — Brian Tracy
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. — William McFee
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington

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