Obscurantist Quotes

#1. Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy Debord

#2. Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.

Brent Weeks

#3. The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

T. S. Eliot

#4. The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

Alan Sokal

#5. We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent ... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days ... spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

Billy Graham

#8. If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

David Lloyd-Jones

#9. She hadn't known that,

Nora Roberts

#10. To those that have smelled death, life has a fragrance that can never be explained to the ignorant.

Jury Nel

#11. There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory.

Betty Smith

#12. When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

Stephen Furst

#13. And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Now I am short on some props, and there isn't nearly enough time in one night to run through all the ways I've fantasized about taking you, but I promise you this ... " His voice deepened, "You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. FOR THE LADDER OF SUCCESS IS NOT CROWDED AT THE TOP.

Obi

#16. I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

Salma Hayek

#17. A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that phase, a more mature artist can concentrate on truly developing talent and vision.

Wafaa Bilal