Obvious Quotes

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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious. — Al McGuire
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that… — David Simon
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware… — Henri Nouwen
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs… — W. Somerset Maugham
Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking… — James Fenton
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst… — Stephen R. Donaldson
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the… — Reginald Fessenden
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much… — Linus Pauling
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is… — T. Harv Eker
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya

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