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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." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"The obvious is always least understood" »Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
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"The great discoveries are usually obvious." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"Evil is obvious only in retrospect." »Gloria Steinem
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious." »Andr Gide
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"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." »Arthur Koestler
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"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question." »Eric Hoffer
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." »Isaac Asimov
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." »Kahlil Gibran
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"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." »Alfred A. Knopf
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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
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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." »Albert Einstein
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"It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." »Alfred North Whitehead
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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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"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities." »Robertson Davies
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"When a thing is new, people say 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say 'Anyway, it is not new.'" »William James
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"The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." »John Keats
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"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell
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"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning." »Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
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"There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious." »Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." »Randall Jarrell
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." »C.A.R. Hoare
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"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists." »Edward De Bono
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"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." »Leo Tolstoy
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"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof." »Dogen Zenji
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