Obvious Facts Quotes

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

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

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

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

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.