Difficult Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

— Donald Barthelme

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

— Patrick Modiano

Be obscure clearly.

— E. B. White

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

— Horace

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Familiarity obscures surprises”

— Israel O. Olaniran

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to…

— Alec Guinness

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

— Anonymous

Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be…

— Robert Boyle

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure…

— Nelson Goodman

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

— Anonymous