Obvious Quotes

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Never assume the obvious is true.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

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

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

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.