The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a… — Wolfgang Ketterle Copy Share Image
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is… — Robert Bothwell Copy Share Image
People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its… — Daniele Nouy Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not… — Dede Gardner Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap. — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'm someone who likes to acknowledge the obvious and not feel like we must do or say things because it's what we're… — Nick Viall Copy Share Image
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