Obvious Quotes

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And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. — David Hume
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be… — Lee Smolin
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they… — Wilhelm Wundt
It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France. — Unknown Author
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... — Michael Stipe
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but… — Vernon Howard
To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling of competence and… — Tara Hunt
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations,… — Peter Block
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is… — R. Buckminster Fuller
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act… — Laurens van der Post
The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a… — Armin Hofmann
Itâ€™s dead obvious that creationism isnâ€™t science, or even bad science. Itâ€™s nonsense. But Iâ€™ve long stated itâ€™s also bad religion, because it doesnâ€™t just… — Phil Plait
Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in… — Gene Roddenberry
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement… — William Farr
We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It… — Hugh Shelton
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the… — Jessica Lynch
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the… — Alfred Loisy
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own… — Hannah Arendt
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for… — Courtney Milan

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