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Paul ValeryGod made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

—  Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet

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Charles BaudelaireLet us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

—  Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet

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Pablo PicassoThe hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

—  Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter

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Alfred North WhiteheadIt requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

—  Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician

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Peter DruckerOnce the facts are clear, the decisions jump out at you.

—  Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru

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Arthur Conan DoyleThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—  Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer

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Steve JobsCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

—  Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

—  Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer

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Marie von Ebner-EschenbachBe the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims

Aldοus HuxleyThe course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

Noam ChomskyIf something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

—  Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist

Robert Louis StevensonIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer

Arthur Koestler The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

—  Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer

Jerry SeinfeldThere’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

—  Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian

Ancient Greek

EpicurusFor the gods exist, since the knowledge about them is obvious.

Θεοί μεν γαρ εισίν. Εναργής γαρ αυτών εστιν η γνώσις.

—  Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

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