Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America.

Scholarship can find little to say about 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.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

Teamwork is not always going to be split equally, and being able to work on a team without competing with your peers is an important skill to have. If you're that good, the other things you do independently will be seen, and over time it will be obvious that you're a winner.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

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

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

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

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

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

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.