Best 83 quotes in «obscure quotes» category

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts; expose and share them freely!

You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you will achieve global success!

You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is "how would they get to know that you are proud if you had not talked about your dreams?" How then should people get to know what you do if you take delight in hiding yourself?

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

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

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.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence will be seen from afar!

You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you have, and what you have to know for the comfort, inspiration and enlightenment of others!

Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may be great but unknown! Your influence can travel long distances if only you give them the chances to go where they are needed! Rebrand yourself!

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)

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

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

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

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.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

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.

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

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

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

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

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Obscure, like muddy waters.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.