Clarification Quote by Kenny Smith

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

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

— Bertrand Russell

“it is unmistakable; it does not need other proofs to back it up; it is self-evident and attests to its own truth.”

— John W. Loftus

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

— Daniel Quinn

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Albert Einstein

“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“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

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists”

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller