Quotes About Obvious

The elephant in the room" is a phrase I enjoy, having at different times been either elephant or room. We can lose ourselves in situations or conversations and miss the obvious. We're looking for someone to save us or a solution to a problem, and they're right in front of us hiding in plain sight.

Cope cupped his hand to his ear. "Listen, Frank. Hear it?" His voice was a whisper. "That's the sound of your incompetence being made obvious to the masses. Not just your incompetence, but your suicidal stupidity at going after your superior when the facts do not back you up." "I

He wanted to ask why, but the question was so obvious, just hanging out there within easy view, that to voice it would be redundant.

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.

You don't need to be a trained investigator to grasp the blatantly obvious fact that the funding of the Steele dossier by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a crucial piece of information that should have been revealed to the FISA Court.

But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

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.

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

They blinded themselves to the obvious. That is the great triumph of mindless need over intelligence and the human spirit.

This difference between a probability statement on the one hand, and the probability of a statement, or the degree of belief in a statement on the other, may seem elusive, but is actually quite obvious.

The mystical journey seems to offer a graduate education in the obvious. Yet people come out of the experience understanding these platitudes in a new way; what was merely known is now felt, takes on the authority of a deeply rooted conviction. And, more often than not, that conviction concerns the supreme importance of love.

The mystical journey seems to offer a graduate education in the obvious.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they're tired of repeating those things.

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.

Sometimes obvious foolishness is the only answer to grave problems.

The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court.'