Obvious Quotes - Page 2

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Make subtlety obvious.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

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.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

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."

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.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.