Made Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Horace

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

— Stephen Young

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

— David Byrne

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

“Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style.”

— Bernard Lewis

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

— Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I like the modern form. Anyone who absolutely has to understand everything he sees misses a lot. It's not always true that "obscure words…

— Tarjei Vesaas

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand…

— George MacDonald