Quotes About Obscure

For formerly, under the papacy, when I was a monk, it was by no means customary to speak of a promise. And I give thanks to God that I may live at this time, when this word "promise" resounds in my ears and in the ears of all the godly. For he who hears the Word easily understands the divine promise, which was obscure and unknown to all the theologians throughout the papacy.

the simple shorthand 'Roman conquest' can obscure a wide range of perspectives, motivations and aspirations on every side of the encounter.

The fog is rising.

They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost none of it could emerge to penetrate public consciousness.

As it is the invisible forces that are the most powerful in nature, so it is the obscure and least observed events that have accomplished the most tremendous revolutions in human affairs.

The past is never gone. It just hides.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

If Nature is not an object of thought, that is, a simple correlate of a thought, it is decidedly not a subject either, and for the same reason: its opacity, its enveloping. It is an obscure principle.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

we're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

No lugar desconhecido habita o desejo.

So much is invisible.

History is not a bedtime story. It is a comprehensive engagement with often obscure documents and books no longer read—books shelved in old archives, and fragile pamphlets contemporaneous with the subject under study—all of which reflect a world view not ours.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.

course, OxyContin was stronger than morphine. That was a simple fact of chemistry—but one that the company would need to carefully obscure.

OxyContin was stronger than morphine. That was a simple fact of chemistry—but one that the company would need to carefully obscure. After all, there are only so many cancer patients.

It's not a path, but it helps choose a path. It's the simplest way, but it is not easy to see. Honestly, you people sound like drunk cartographers.

Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.

Put something in the wrong place, and even though it is still there—quite possibly smack under your nose—it can vanish for the rest of time.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.