Obvious Quotes

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Creativity, Questions And Answers, Problem Solving

  "Questions That Work: How to Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed in Any Business Situation". Book by Andrew Finlayson, p. 239, 2001.

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• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Obvious Things, World

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

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• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Cute Life, Simplicity

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lessons, Hardest

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• Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• The obvious is always least understood.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Thinking, History, Understanding

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• Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.

  Richard Farson

  Invisible

  Richard Farson (1997). “Management of the Absurd”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Knowledge, Understanding, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

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• If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

  John Spence

  Heart, Thinking, Space

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Isaac Asimov

  Foundation, Pay, Reputation

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Work, Philosophy

  "Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities". Book by Christopher Jargodzki, 2001.

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• Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

  Kobe Bryant

  Eye

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

  Anita Brookner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• In art, the obvious is a sin.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Art, Sin

  Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.36, Taylor & Francis

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• It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Contemplating, Extraordinary

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Attitude, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

  Anodea Judith

  Meaning Of Life, Life Is

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• Never assume the obvious is true.

  William Safire

  Truth, Obviousness, Peer Pressure

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Spells

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.

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