Top 100 Most Obvious Quotes
#1. At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues at all, physical strength being the most obvious example.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#2. Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign
John Gardner
#3. 10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people's strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!
James C. Dobson
#4. One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
Georges Courteline
#5. We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
Anne Shirley
#6. Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?
Marisa Miller
#7. There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Andrew Weil
#9. Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.
H.L. Mencken
#10. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#11. The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
Steven Levitt
#12. When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Bertolt Brecht
#13. First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.
Jack Welch
#14. The most obvious effect of inverting a chord is to change its bass note, and one result of voice leading through the use of inversions is the creation of melodic bass lines that connect from chord to chord by steps rather than by the wider leaps common when root position voicings alone are used.
Carl Schroeder
#15. One of the most obvious characteristics of the very stupid is that they need to ask the same question multiple times whenever the answer doesn't match their preconceived judgement. They think that it's easier to impose their lie than accepting the truth.
Robin Sacredfire
#16. Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements ... are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.
Alexander Hamilton
#17. Holly was playing the concerned relative, the devoted sister, and if it was a ham performance Robin was experienced enough, now, to know that there were usually nuggets of truth to be sifted from even the most obvious dross.
Robert Galbraith
#18. The proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.
Terry Pratchett
#19. It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you - which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue, its unmistakable calling card.
Alexander McCall Smith
#20. The most obvious clue was sartorial: cleantech executives were running around wearing suits and ties. This was a huge red flag, because real technologists wear T-shirts and jeans.
Peter Thiel
#21. I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
Nick Woodman
#22. Discrepancies in educational performances - This is often one of the most obvious indicators of dyslexia.
Gavin Reid
#23. I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.
Lancelot Law Whyte
#24. I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
Brian Molko
#25. The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.
Sam Vaknin
#26. Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.
Scott Turow
#27. When we see something like this we forget the most important and most obvious thing ... those butterflies will never fly again."
"It's unnatural, and yet it's so seductive ... "
"That's exactly the effect that death has on some individuals. That's why serial killers exist.
Donato Carrisi
#28. I don't think - I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!
Matthew Norman
#29. Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
Helen Nielsen
#30. He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
Megan Whalen Turner
#31. The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.
Ruth Kluger
#32. It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.
Richard K. Morgan
#33. Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#34. Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#35. People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).
Larry Carlton
#36. The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?
Sunday Adelaja
#37. The fact that any person or institution, however well respected, praises or adopts something never constitutes proof of anything. It might merely illustrate that even well-educated people or powerful institutions can sometimes commit the silliest and most obvious of mistakes.
Edzard Ernst
#38. Experience is the best teacher."... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of
Dennis Linn
#39. The most obvious problem with estimating a dummy dependent variable model using OLS is that the predicted probabilities aren't guaranteed
Roberto Pedace
#40. The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
Richard P. Feynman
#41. He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.
Hannah Harrington
#42. The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
David Foster Wallace
#43. Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.
Lenny Jacobson
#44. The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
Derek Bok
#45. Sometimes the information you need is not in the most obvious place.
Lemony Snicket
#46. We wonder how people can't see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.
Ezra Bayda
#47. That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.
Oliver Harris
#48. Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
#49. Pg 29 their brief relationship now strikes her as the most obvious mistake in the worl
Jennifer E. Smith
#50. As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
Barbara Delinsky
#51. There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
Nick Flynn
#52. I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.
Todd Haynes
#53. The nutritional composition of beef provides much-needed protein, vitamins and iron.... Let us also not gloss over what is beef's most obvious benefit: Livestock take inedible and untasty grains and convert them into a protein-packed food most humans love to eat.
Jayson Lusk
#54. It seems now that the place where you see
the most obvious censorship is on college campuses
the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
Alan Charles Kors
#55. Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
Anne Lamott
#56. Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
George Polya
#57. All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.
Quentin Crisp
#58. My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.
Norman G. Finkelstein
#59. But it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes.
Charles Bukowski
#60. The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#61. The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
Brian Eno
#62. If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera
#63. I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#64. Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton
#65. Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated.
Dorothy Dunnett
#66. One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
#67. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
C. West Churchman
#68. When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.
Mark Link
#69. The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
David Hume
#70. Wealth is an inner feeling. More precisely, wealth is an outlook, an attitude, a belief. And the most obvious measurement of wealth is gratitude.
Bo Sanchez
#71. I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#72. Indeed, the UNGA has acquired perhaps its most obvious significance as a protest forum for dissatisfied would-be nations (such as the Palestinians since 1970s).
Jussi M. Hanhimaki
#73. Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.
Thomas G. Stemberg
#74. We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.
Brenna Yovanoff
#75. While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.
Jim Ryun
#76. People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
Judith Martin
#77. most obvious application of functions is defining new vocabulary. Creating new words in regular, human-language prose is usually bad style. But in programming, it is indispensable.
Marijn Haverbeke
#78. The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
#79. Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again?
Neal Stephenson
#80. But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.
Blake Nelson
#81. Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.
Travis Bradberry
#82. Created sick, and then commanded to be well. This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims that eventually lay waste to the illusion of faith.
Christopher Hitchens
#83. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
Orson Scott Card
#84. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#85. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
#86. The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
Bill Keller
#88. When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.
Jack Kornfield
#89. Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.
Pittacus Lore
#90. It happens all the time. Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest to see.
Jessica Brody
#91. What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances ... the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.
Conrad Hyers
#92. Let's begin with a simple assumption. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way. And how would that be? Through the Bible, His revelation.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#93. Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett
#94. A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard
#95. A long night spent with your most obvious weakness
You start shaking at the thought you are everything I want
Because you are everything I'm not
Taking Back Sunday
#96. That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
Steve Vai
#97. The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers
#98. I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.
Vin Diesel
#99. Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.
Melanie Cusick-Jones
#100. The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.
Matt Bondurant
