Obscure Quotes

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace,
nothing more obscure than human intentions,
nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

When the situation is obscure, attack

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those obscure preaching and do what you are supposed to do

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.