Obvious Quotes

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
Mason Cooley

Long, Enough, Dissolves

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller

Life, Fact, Meaning

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide

Important, Often, Necessary

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison

Fact, Whether, Religious

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

Often, Question, Call

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai

Peace, Today, Human

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher

Two, Three, Name

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
Drew Barrymore

Work, God, Made

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller

Strong, Simple, Someone

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

Audience, Clever, Subtleties

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm

Nature, Law, Seems

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

Simple, Pretty, Big

Never assume the obvious is true.
William Safire

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire

Sense, Common, Beware

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter

Women, Decision, Military

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
Robert Anton Wilson

Earth, Church, Nobody

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
Thandie Newton

Life, Children, State

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

Hate, Bit, Perverse

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
David Byrne

Together, Why, Put

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

Knowledge, Science, Brain

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education, Time, Seems

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz

Nature, Show, Purpose

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Happen, Mankind

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
Mark Cuban

Family, Good, Game

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Games, Objective, Video

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

Home, Long, Give

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.
Thomas Frank

American, Making, Until

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.
Thomas Frank

Age, Society, Become

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec

Nature, Art, Beautiful

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky

Whatever, Universal, Theory

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