Obscuring Truth Quotes

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.