There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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.
Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Everything is self-evident.
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
