Obvious Quotes

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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. — Richard Dawkins
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. — William Hazlitt
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an… — John Philip Sousa
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. — Elbert Hubbard
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as… — Jacques Barzun
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...… — Edward de Bono
Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true. — Terry Pratchett
Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days… — Francis Maude
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now… — Werner Heisenberg
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the… — Leon Battista Alberti
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. — David Cronenberg
for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude… — Edward Weston
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is… — Nelson Goodman
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. — Byron Katie
As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm… — Flint McGlaughlin
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. — Michael Schudson
What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest… — Cynthia McKinney
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious… — Jan Chozen Bays
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable. — Walter Darby Bannard
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. — Walter Darby Bannard
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many… — Beverley Nichols

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