Obvious Quotes - Page 2

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Twilight, Good Luck

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• The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

  Assar Lindbeck

  Tests, Firsts, Brilliant

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• History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Two, Unions

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• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Knowledge, Suggestions

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• It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

  Richard Dawkins

  Chance, Theory, Ifs

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Religion, Mystic, Persons

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

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• Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

  Francis Maude

  Mean, Needs, Lord

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• To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

  David Cronenberg

  Differences, Cultural Differences, Huge

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• The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

  Eric Liu

  Ugly, Behinds

  "Let’s Test Everyone for Citizenship" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Feelings, Natural

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

  Edward Dunlop

  War, Moral, Armament

  "Twenty-five Years: 1892-1916". Book by Edward Grey, Vol. 1, pp. 91-92, 1925.

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• It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

  Patricia Field

  Needs, Answers, Timeless

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The obvious is always least understood.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Thinking, History, Understanding

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• Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Animal, Men, Use

  Thomas Love Peacock (1850). “Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey”, p.8

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• Obvious to you is amazing to others.

  Derek Sivers

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• The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

  Daniel Quinn

  Way, Sometimes, Illuminating

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• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Children, Might

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Missing, Needs

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• A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Queens, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

  Michael Lewis

  Would Be, Retrospect, Financial

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• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Religion, Facts

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• In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Women, Communication, Yelling

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• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Claude Chabrol

  Track, Giving, Laying Down

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• Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Made, Reader

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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