A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes..

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of t….

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire som….

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his wo….

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well..

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity..

Obscurity is the realm of error..

Obscurity is the kingdom of error..

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixt….

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with ….

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so direct….

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff..

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small..

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen..

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superio….

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature..

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes ar….

In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night….

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse..

Obscurity often brings safety..