Obscurity Quotes - Page 5

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.