Quotes About Obviousness

#1. This is what I feared for Michael. That his generation, so strong, so well made, so bright and aware beyond its years, would compare itself to us in envy, envy of the clarity of our challenges and the brutish obviousness of our enemies.

Steven Pressfield

#2. The simplicity of it was disconcerting: a simplicity that made all the other dates they'd had before baffling, those times they'd had to talk or try to be amusing, make an effort to seem like a worthwhile person. The obviousness of it became almost laughable.

David Foenkinos

#3. It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself.

Pawan Mishra

#4. Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity ...

Louis Aragon

#6. The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're open like that. We like to know that people love us; we don't care how they look.

Tiphanie Yanique

#8. There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

John De Ruiter

#9. Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Albert Einstein

#10. My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

John Fowles

#11. It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Paulo Freire

#12. Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.

John Locke

#13. Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

Rex Stout

#14. Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron.
"I figured that out myself, funnily enough.

J.K. Rowling

#15. A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

Graham Norton

#16. Hindsight isn't a super power.

SE Zbasnik

#17. There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Richard Paul Evans

#19. The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

#20. Dark is dark in the darkness.

Chet Williamson

#21. Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire

#23. Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ... especially the children of men.

Richard Hooker

#24. Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

Bryant McGill

#25. the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#26. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#28. In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Umberto Eco

#29. It's been five weeks since she walked out of my door. I started counting the second the door closed. I wonder when I'll stop.

Katja Millay