(62 quotes found)
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
William Blake
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
James Thurber
“Be obscure clearly.”
E. B. White
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
Edward R. Murrow
“The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure”
Gregory Nunn
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability”
David Hume
“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.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
William S. Burroughs
“In its rush to war, the administration has obscured the goals, dissimulated the costs, disparaged our friends and allies and branded as unpatriotic ordinary Americans who pose legitimate questions, ... It has squandered the universal credit and sympathy America received after 9/11, and it has damaged our alliances and the United Nations.”
Carol Moseley Braun
