Top 100 Quotes About Obvious
#1. It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.
John Dewey
#2. I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
Christopher Koch
#3. Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer annihilation. But
Nancy Goldstone
#4. A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time.
Seth Shostak
#5. And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It's so obvious they're going to get together.
Catherine McKenzie
#6. We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
Henry Parry Liddon
#7. 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
Janae B. Weinhold
#8. Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.
Linda Dillow
#9. When you are leading a tribe, a tribe that you belong to, the benefits increase, the work gets easier, and the results are more obvious. That's the best reason to overcome the fear.
Seth Godin
#10. A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
John Le Carre
#11. Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?
David Mitchell
#12. Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".
Nehali Lalwani
#13. there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.
John Mackey
#15. Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.
Aristotle.
#16. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#17. 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
#18. Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.
Stanislaw Ulam
#19. Walking, eh?' said the officer. 'Just walking?' I nodded and waited for the obvious truth to sink in. 'Well,' said the officer, 'don't do it again!' And the police car drove away.
Ray Bradbury
#20. If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.
George Polya
#21. I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.
Lucas Papademos
#22. Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
Robert Kirkman
#23. If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.
Simone De Beauvoir
#24. When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.
Erica Bauermeister
#26. Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.
Mary Gaitskill
#27. Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...
G.E. Moore
#28. I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
Shailene Woodley
#29. It seems obvious that both the religious and the irreligious are capable of varying degrees of tolerance or intolerance, benevolence or malice, depending on how they understand the moral implications of their beliefs.
David Bentley Hart
#30. It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'
Susan Barker
#31. To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#32. The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Duane Michals
#33. There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite
may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but
perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
Amish Tripathi
#34. We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.
Sarah Palin
#35. Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire
our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome
vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)
Alexandra Ivy
#36. Once I saw Desjardins' house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids.
"Pyramids Road?" Sadie said. "Obvious, much?"
"Maybe he couldn't find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street," I suggested.
Rick Riordan
#37. When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
Anna Sui
#38. The Maker will always make provisions for us. We have to be mindful of that fact and aware His provisions will not always be so obvious to us.
Angie Brashear
#39. We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.
David McCullough
#40. The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.
Jesse Eisenberg
#41. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
#42. The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.
Salman Rushdie
#43. Don't be too obvious about it.
Auliq Ice
#44. Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they're tired of repeating those things.
Kim A-joong
#45. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.
Robert Lewis Hinkle
#46. It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
George Eliot
#49. We've entered dangerous territory. You can't kiss someone with so much emotion if you're preparing to walk away. Alarms ring through my head, too loud and too obvious to be ignored. There are way too many complex emotions being passed between us. I already know he's going to shatter my heart.
Jennifer Ann
#50. Did you have any plans to do anything?" Matt finally thought to ask Neil. "Besides the obvious, I mean." Neil wasn't sure if Matt meant Exy or Andrew.
Nora Sakavic
#51. I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.
Stephen Baldwin
#52. Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.
Oscar Wilde
#53. It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
Daniel Keys Moran
#54. But all the good outcomes make the truth obvious: the more we create, the less we destroy.
Kevin Ashton
#55. Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.
Orson Scott Card
#56. Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.
Marvin J. Ashton
#57. I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen
Ron Suskind
#58. Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.
Edward Weston
#59. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.
Laurie R. King
#60. Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
Claude Debussy
#61. Well, Grimm is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
Reggie Lee
#62. God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
Quentin Crisp
#63. Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.
Jay Maisel
#64. The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the foreground. It must be written again, right from the beginning ...
Hermann Hesse
#65. Darrak"- she let out a shuddery breath-"I need my privacy."
"That's going to be difficult. For obvious reasons
Michelle Rowen
#66. While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.
Dacia Maraini
#67. Oh, I hope I don't teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won't learn the obvious lesson.
Chris Cleave
#68. Go naked. Trust me, if you don't have a thing to wear, that's the obvious choice.
Dave Freer
#69. The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
#70. It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.
Morris Graves
#71. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.
Sam Harris
#72. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.
Roger Kahn
#73. Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.
Jeff Lindsay
#74. The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
Bill Drayton
#75. When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.
James Fallows
#76. For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon ... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
Jacques Parizeau
#77. That I am in direct mind-to-mind touch with extraterrestrial intelligence systems has been obvious to me for some time, but what this means is not in any way obvious.
Philip K. Dick
#78. Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter Lippmann
#79. Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way
Cressida Cowell
#80. We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
Daniel Kahneman
#81. Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
Bruce Vilanch
#82. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
Rene Dubos
#83. You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.
Matina Horner
#84. But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.
Miranda July
#85. Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
Maria Montessori
#86. To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.
Matt Haig
#87. It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
Elie Wiesel
#88. Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.
Demi Lovato
#89. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#90. You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
Cristina Saralegui
#91. My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
Randy Castillo
#92. The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#93. The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies ("My people are too dumb to build systems without them" ) and technical interference by the manager. Both are doomed to fail in the long run.
Tom DeMarco
#94. Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.
Matt Padwick
#95. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.
Katherine Catmull
#96. Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!
Jerry Brown
#97. Rook, I should think it obvious." He smiled broadly. "I'm famously important.
William Ritter
#98. Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?
Drew Carey
#99. And just as some people have obvious moral deficits, others must possess moral talent, moral expertise, and even moral genius. As with any human ability, these gradations must be expressed at the level of the brain. Game
Sam Harris
#100. The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-
John Grisham
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