Obvious Truths Quotes

#1. When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.

Jack Kornfield

#2. So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

James Lileks

#3. It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.

Richard K. Morgan

#4. 'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

Adrian Tomine

#5. The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice
that is, all excess
brings its own punishment even here.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible.

Pearl Zhu

#7. The causes for happiness are within me, as are the answers to all life's important questions.

Narissa Doumani

#8. Jesus and Yillah showed they were superior to the world by dying for it."
"Doesn't sound so superior," Ben commented.

Peter Tieryas

#9. 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

#10. In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king.
[In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

George Herbert

#11. Love is the weapon of the wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. Given the conflicting messages we receive about what it takes to be "good enough," it's not surprising that Christians are as plagued by depression and anxiety as the general population.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#14. Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

Lauren Slater

#15. It wasn't closure, really. But I'd said the right things. I'd hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn't get closure. Maybe some things weren't really worth it, or didn't really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.

Vee Hoffman

#16. During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

Joshua Harris

#17. Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman

#18. The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

John Dewey

#19. There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something.

Albert Camus

#20. I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow.

Jean Rhys

#21. They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

Brian K. Vaughan

#22. When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I find myself having these conversations where I go ... You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

Dave Barry

#24. To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

Mae West

#25. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes