Obscure Knowledge Quotes

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I like what's obscure.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.