Obvious Quotes
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
I could feel immediately the movement. To somebody that understands the game and feels the football, smells the situation, it was obvious (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. (Quote by - Confucius)
The obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. (Quote by - Ruth Ginsburg)
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness like success also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other. (Quote by - Donna Fargo)
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. (Quote by - Dogen Zenji)
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. (Quote by - André Gide)
The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' obviously, the man who can sing tenor. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. (Quote by - A. N. Wilson)
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. (Quote by - Anatole France)
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The great discoveries are usually obvious (Quote by - Philip Crosby)
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
His immense power is lightened by a rhythm which has in it as little obvious propulsion as a movement of music by Mozart. (Quote by - Neville Cardus)
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
This guy is such an obvious cheater that once, when he had a hole in one, he wrote down zero on his scorecard. (Quote by - Anonymous)
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not. (Quote by - Remy de Gourmont)
A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris. (Quote by - Bo Gritz)
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. (Quote by - Sir Alfred Jules Ayer)
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. (Quote by - Nathaniel P. Willis)
No further evidence is needed to show that ''mental illness'' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. (Quote by - Sir Max Beerbohm)
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. (Quote by - Oswald Spengler)
Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'. (Quote by - Francis Maude)
'God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.' (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. (Quote by - Hesketh Pearson)
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatory. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. (Quote by - C.A.R. Hoare)
It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it. (Quote by - Morris Graves)
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. (Quote by - Barry Pepper)
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. (Quote by - Ed Murrow)
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Never assume the obvious is true. (Quote by - William Safire)
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito. (Quote by - Michelle Walker)
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different (Quote by - Werner Heisenberg)
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything but the obvious. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists (Quote by - Edward De Bono)
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)
