Obscure Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.