Charlatans Quote by Hugh Kingsmill Download Open image “A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” — Hugh Kingsmill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charlatans Clear Learning Libertarian Obscure Programming Software design Thinker
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style.” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like… — Edith Hamilton 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
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take… — Virginia Woolf 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
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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