Obvious Quotes - Page 3

• The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

  Andre Gide

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Thinking

  "The Journals of André Gide: 1914-1927". 1951.

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Vulgarity Is, Satin, Vulgar

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• People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

  Scott Berkun

  Obvious Things, Knowing, People

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• We need men who can dream of things that never were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Dream, Inspiration

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Common Folk, Common Sense

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• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hate, Littles, Bits

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

  Thomas Keating

  Religious, Humanity, Violence

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

  Heraclitus

  Powerful, Connections, Unexpected

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• There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

  Nick Flynn

  Arms, Way, Wave

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.209, Faber & Faber

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• It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

  Stewart Udall

  Men, Quality, Population

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

  Lenny Jacobson

  Nice, Obvious Things, Seems

  "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Life, Stronger

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• I see no reason for recording the obvious.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Photographer, Reason

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• 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

  Thinking, Mind, May

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• When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

  Henry Flynt

  Self, Problem, Assertion

  "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.

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• Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

  William Hazlitt

  Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources

  William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.233

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• The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  New Experiences, Games, People

  "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Honesty

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Family, War, Moving

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• You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, People, Novelists

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 16), 1998.

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• We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

  Trevanian

  Desire, Enjoy, Understood

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.22, Crown

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• Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

  Debra Hamel

  Simple, Decision, Turns

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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