Language Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.”

— Rex Stout

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

— Daniel Quinn

The obvious is always least understood.

— Klemens von Metternich

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it…

— Kevin Hearne

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious;…

— Bob Dylan

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

— Werner Heisenberg

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

— Albert Einstein

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

— Khalil Gibran

“If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.”

— Albert Einstein

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

— R. Buckminster Fuller