Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
Obscure Quotes
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
Words like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Those who know they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is timid and dislikes going into the water.
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not […]
Obscurity is the realm of error.
When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint.
