Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When in doubt, do the obvious.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Anything is possible if it happens.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

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

Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

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

If you can say it... it's obvious.

If you give a five thousand dollar diamond ring to a two year old child, sooner or later, that child is going to lose the treasure. Even though you could have meant well, yet the child would misplace the diamond. It is obvious because that child doesn’t know the value of a diamond ring.

Internet, Can fill a young mind with a whole bunch of gablooey

If you only have the ability to see what's hidden, you can't see the obvious! If you only have the ability to see the obvious, you can't see what's hidden!

I have nothing left to prove.

Repeated enough times even the most obvious obnoxious lies become to seem like the truth.

It is obviously a good rule not to lie to others but even more important not to lie to oneself.

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest

Rachel’s the first one to speak. “So—he told you.” “Told me what?” “Come on, Hal. What’s changed since yesterday?” Rachel sneaks one arm out of her jacket cocoon to give Hallelujah a soft punch in the shoulder. “I may not be at my best right now, but I’m not blind.” She pauses. “Or deaf.” Hallelujah feels her face get hot. “Oh. What did you hear?” “Bits and pieces. I was really out of it last night, after . . . whatever that was. After almost freezing to death.” Rachel shudders. “I have to say, it was totally obvious from the get-go that Jonah liked you.” “It was?” Hallelujah is still surprised. She still doesn’t quite believe it. “Um, yeah. Or did you think he’s out here for me?” Rachel says slowly, as if to a child, “You followed me. He followed you.

Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have.

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!