Obvious Quotes
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
Aristotle
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
Imtiaz Ali
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Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
Seth Godin
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
Emma Willard
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
Brown Campbell
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
Kate Smith
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
Oscar Wilde
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
Natalie Zea
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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I am at war with the obvious.
William Eggleston
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Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same.
James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
Rabih Alameddine
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
Jack Lynch
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He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent. (on David Beckham)
Kevin Keegan
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I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
Felix Baumgartner
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
Walker Percy
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Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
Cameron Russell