Obscurity Quotes

193 Obscurity quotes by 167 unique authors

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. — Peabo Bryson
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious… — Tacitus
The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict… — Harry Reid
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the… — Henry David Thoreau
Obscurity often brings safety. — Aesop
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
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
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
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system,… — Niels Henrik Abel
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations.… — Walther Rathenau
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity… — Mark Twain
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello
Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look;… — Matt Damon
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate… — Thomas a Kempis
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. — Robert A. Heinlein

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