Obvious Quotes

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the 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.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

The obvious is obviously wrong.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

How very wet this water is.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

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.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.