Top 1200 Obvious Things Quotes & Sayings

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

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

The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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 we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

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; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.

Things always become obvious after the fact

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

I just try to make comics for myself, try to give it some kind of unity throughout. That often involves tiny details. I'm never sure what's going to be obvious or what nobody will ever notice. I put stuff in my comics that I thought was blatantly obvious, and nobody noticed. And things that I think are buried in the background, everybody gets it. So I try to be consistently aware of every part of the frame.

Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.