Obscure Quotes

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

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

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

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

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

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

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.