Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old obscure quotes, obscure sayings, and obscure proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.Plautus
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.Alexander Pope
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There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.Joseph Addison
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There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.Jules Olitski
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If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.Thomas a Kempis
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, the post of honor is a private station.Joseph Addison
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.David Hume
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Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.Mason Cooley
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.Robert Emmet
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.George Allen
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.Socrates
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If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.Hilary Mason
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.Alexander The Great
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Even the most obscure hermit in the forest was not utterly alone; he too was enfolded in belonging.Herman Hesse
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.Victor Hugo
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.Cynthia Ozick
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Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time.Christian Nestell Bovee
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!Charlotte Bronte
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O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!Seneca
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.Mae West
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Obscurity is the realm of error.Luc De Clapiers
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Obscurity brings safety.Aesop
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.Tacitus
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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.Robert A. Heinlein
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Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.Erika M. Anderson
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.Hosea Ballou
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Obscurity is never a virtue.Roald Dahl
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.Samuel Johnson