Obscurity Quotes
193 quotes by 167 authors
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Obscurity brings safety.
— Aesop
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,…
— Bergen Evans
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I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
— Robert De Niro
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Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.
— Carrie Fisher
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot…
— Eric Hoffer
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Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
— Protagoras
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It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working…
— J D Salinger
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win…
— George Allen
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world;…
— Khalil Gibran
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and…
— Cyrus the Great
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Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with…
— Guo Xiang
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I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of…
— Rachel Kushner
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This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.
— Unknown Author
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture…
— Elihu Palmer
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
— Alexander the Great
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Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes…
— Unknown Author
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