Obscure Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

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

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

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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.