This collection holds 301 obscure quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are E. B. White, Steven Klein and Laozi.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Be obscure clearly.

I like what's obscure.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

When the situation is obscure, attack

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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

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

I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

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

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

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

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

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

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

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

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