Obviousness Quotes

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

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.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.