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Obvious Quotes - Page 4

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

"Fred Wilson: My Harvard Business School Lecture" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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.

Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

E. W. Hornung, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Kendrick Bangs (2016). “COLLECTOR’S EDITION – COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES & SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES: 60+ Novels & Stories in One Volume (Mystery & Crime Classics): Including The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night, Mr. Justice Raffles, Mrs. Raffles, R. Holmes & Co., and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.823, e-artnow

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

"Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

"Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.