Obvious Quotes · Page 4

“the problem at this point is that there is a problem.”

— Captain Obvious

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

— Kit Harington

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

— Nicholas Sparks

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

— John Burdett

“The obvious choices in life aren’t always the correct ones.”

— Sylvain Reynard

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption

— C. West Churchman

If you still talk about it...it's obvious that you still care!..

— Anonymous

I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.

— Chris de Burgh

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool…

— Kevin Sampsell

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

— Jean Baudrillard

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

— Noam Chomsky

“If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.”

— Steven D. Levitt

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the…

— Michael Bywater

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can…

— T. S. Eliot

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't…

— Max Walker

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,…

— Bertrand Russell

“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one…

— Philip K. Dick

At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war,…

— Gretl Braun

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,…

— George Orwell

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find…

— Kiese Laymon

If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the…

— George Polya

A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind…

— Brad Warner

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to…

— Lucas Papademos

Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who…

— Burt Prelutsky

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some…

— Audrey Tautou

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels…

— Robert Jay Lifton

It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the…

— Peter Cosgrove

It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding…

— Wilhelm Reich

I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the…

— Malik Yoba

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was…

— David Duke

I love Britain, but I've only been to the obvious places.

— Andrew Flintoff

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

— William Hazlitt

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

— Elizabeth Olsen

“Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

— Nina Easton

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

— James Cook

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

— Neil Gaiman