Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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

One of my own guiding principles in intelligence work was ... not to make a mystery of what is a matter of common knowledge or obvious to friend and foe alike.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

If you ever have a question or a problem, if you approach Triple H, he might say the most-obvious thing, but it was the last thing you were thinking. As soon as he says it, you're thinking, 'Oh my, why didn't I think of that?' He's very smart, and we're very lucky to have him at our disposal in NXT.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

Common sense is the best prophet.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.