Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

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

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

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

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The great discoveries are usually 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

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

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.

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

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Genna: “My straw has a hole in it!” Tim: *gives her a Really? look* Genna: “One that it’s not meant to have!

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

Anything is possible if it happens.