Quotes
Quotes about Obscurity
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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 obscurity, for being unenvied.
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
