Jayson Blair

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

American Journalist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

German Scientist

George M. Whitesides

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

American Scientist

Isabelle Eberhardt

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

English Explorer

Maya Angelou

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

American Poet

Martin Short

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

American Actor

Joseph Joubert

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

French Writer

Harry S Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

American President

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

American Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

American Philosopher

Used when details are hard to see or understand in complex situations.

Obscure Situations

Perfect for expressing when something can’t be interpreted with certainty.

Ambiguous Context

Use when information is incomplete or partially hidden.

Limited Information

Used when someone hides facts or details, intentionally or not.

Concealing Facts

When people hide their feelings or intentions behind actions or words.

Emotional Shielding

Often used in contexts where someone wants to remain unnoticed.

Avoiding Attention

Refers to something or someone not widely known or acknowledged.

Less Recognition

Certain customs or traditions may be obscure to outsiders.

Cultural Nuances

Related to historic figures or events that are not widely studied.

Historical Use

 Ultimately, there are limits to any approach that boils the quality of life in a country down to a single number. Increasingly, experts favor a dashboard approach that lays out all the factors a single number obscures. This approach makes even more sense given that people have different priorities, and the answer to which country is best to live in

What’s the best country...

 I had to make that joke in this room, because you would be the only people that I'd ever have a chance of getting it. And so, it's a groaner. Elsewhere in the pop and rap world, we're going a little bit sample-crazy. We're getting away from the obscure samples that we were doing, and all of a sudden everyone's taking

How sampling transformed...

 protected area and there's a gap there and this is that gap that wasn't included in the national park and it's the tighter hills and you might think this is a very distant and obscure place but I'll show you a connection to it in a second and what's interesting if you look at this this

People, Plants and...

 I felt like I couldn't just reject my neurologist's diagnosis. It didn't feel true, but I knew from my training that the truth is often counterintuitive, so easily obscured by what we want to believe. So I had to consider the possibility that he was right.

What happens when you...

 but we'll never see them, because the Big Bang itself is obscured by its own afterglow. With gravitational waves, we should be able to see all the way back to the beginning. Perhaps most importantly, I'm positive that there are things out there

What the discovery of...

 just like this one where scientists researchers musicians artists TED fans lead a tango double life now to the outsiders the tango life is quite mysterious you go to obscure dense holes in the dodgy part of town to listen to

My tango double-life PIPE...

 But the painting obscures their struggle to provide food for their household. Even the monarch's advanced age is concealed through the blurring of the mirror. What we do see in the geometric center of the canvas,

Why is this painting so...

 virgins bleed, and hymens are lost forever. Now, this may sound like a minor issue to you. Why should you care about an obscure little skin fold on the female body? But the truth is, this is about so much more

The virginity fraud PIPE...

 but it tends to be in rather darling, obscure psychological flutters. It's not a matter of giving you a different pair of glasses on the world. Now, if that's the case, then why learn languages?

4 reasons to learn a new...

 these senses act as a gateway to the world of joy joy is ever present even when the clouds of the thinking mind obscure our view