The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. – George Allen
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer
Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity — a way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence. – David Lehman
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan
The minds passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. – Adrienne Rich
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain
Obscurity is the realm of error. – Marquis De Vauvenargues
It is better to be looked over than overlooked. – Mae West
