Edward R. Murrow Quotes

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

I like to open people's eyes.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

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

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

There is no darkness but ignorance.