When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’…

There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

— Larry Wall

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

— Leo Burnett

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

— Lenny Jacobson

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

— Neneh Cherry

“Am I your girlfriend?” “Of course.” Like it was the most obvious thing in the world.”

— Amber L. Johnson

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

— David Archuleta

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

— Oscar Wilde

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

Always attempt to understand whatever you see, whatever you hear and whatever you perceive. There is a hidden meaning behind everything, hence things are…

— Tia Nnebo

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.

— Albert Camus

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding…

— Ken Wilber

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

— Terrence Howard

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

— Pablo Picasso

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

— Thom Gunn

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

— Adrienne von Speyr