Obvious Quotes

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Exaggerate the essential,
leave the obvious vague.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Make subtlety obvious.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

Things always become obvious after the fact

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.