Obvious Quotes

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Creativity, Questions And Answers, Problem Solving

  "Questions That Work: How to Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed in Any Business Situation". Book by Andrew Finlayson, p. 239, 2001.

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• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lessons, Hardest

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Obvious Things, World

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

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• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Cute Life, Simplicity

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

  Joseph Granville

  Investing, Ifs

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, Christian Inspirational, Decision

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2015

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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obvious Things, Civilization, Decay

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• Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

  Drayton Bird

  Remember, Overlooked

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• Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

  D. V. Ager

  Experts, Veteran, Obscure

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• To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

  John Mellencamp

  Doomed, Remarks

  Song: Another Sunny Day 12, 25, Album: Dance Naked

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Avoidance

  Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Mathematics, Ifs

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• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Knowledge, Understanding, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

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• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Native American, Steps

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• I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Virtue, Enjoy

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

  Isaac Asimov

  Racism, Hatred, Way

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.71, Macmillan

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• Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

  Jay Chiat

  Jobs, Important, Advertising

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• If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

  Jerry Garcia

  Working It, Going To Work, Ifs

  Source: medium.com

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• All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  George Orwell

  Future, Past, Thinking

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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