Clear Quote by Horace Download Open image “Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clear Confusion Light Obscure
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
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You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it,… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image