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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 5 likes | |
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 4 likes | |
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes | |
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes | |
Once the facts are clear, the decisions jump out at you. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes | |
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 2 likes | |
Creativity 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 2 likes | |
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes | |
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims | |
The 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. | |
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist | |
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. | |
The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. | |
There’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations. |
Ancient Greek
For 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 6 likes |