Quotes About Obvious

Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot lend him my sensations; yet only they would have the power to persuade him, to give him that additional dose of ill-being he has so insistently asked for all this time.

Human beings were such ridiculously predictable creatures.

Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect and it is often rather a cowardly way.

When you think about the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it takes for employers sometimes to accommodate a person with disabilities, when we talk about reasonable accommodations - it's doable, but the payoff isn't always obvious right away.

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

There are no hidden depths to me.

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

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!

The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it's harder to be honest.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Right. That's twenty-two fifty. Twenty-two fifty? We can't hide our exasperation. Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know. That's obvious - the service is incredible.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

Could some similar paradox be responsible for the crisis in modern physics - some unconscious blockage which prevents us from seeing the 'obvious', and compels us to persist in our own version of wavemechanical double-think?