Obviousness Quotes (15 quotes)

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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“Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron.
"I figured that out myself, funnily enough.”
― J.K. Rowling,

tags: obviousness

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“Never assume the obvious is true.”
― William Safire

tags: assumption, common-sense, obviousness, truth

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“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

tags: attributes, characteristics, detection, detectives, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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“the squeeky wheel gets the grease.”
― Josh Billings

tags: logic, logical-thinking, obvious, obviousness, truth

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“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-kind, building-people-up, commandments, communicate, conflict, dogma, end-it-with-talking, facebook, forgive, god, gospel, hidden-agendas, insecure, jilted, love-everyone, low-self-esteem, making-a-point, mental-illness, move-on, neighbors, novels, obviousness, out-there, over-the-top, piety, pious, practice-what-you-preach, preaching, privacy, problems, reach-out, relationships, relentless, religion, religions, ridiculous, rules, self-righteousness, silly, slighted, talk, tearing-people-down, upfront, worthless

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“In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

tags: essentials, fire, imagination, middle-ages, obviousness, writing

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“In the end, it’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the matters that’s deluding mankind. It’s man himself.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

tags: ambiguity, clarity, complexity, humorous, obviousness, time-management

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“Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: ignorance, knowledge, obviousness, wisdom

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“Dark is dark in the darkness.”
― Chet Williamson, Murder in Cormyr

tags: humourous, obviousness, wise-words

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“People will reveal who they are if you just pay attention.”
― Germany Kent

tags: character-quotes, friendships, love, obviousness, pay-attention, people-quotes, relationships, trust, trustworthiness, truth

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“Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, obvious, obvious-truth, obviously, obviousness, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers

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“Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

tags: obviousness, reflection, teaching, thoughts

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“Hindsight isn’t a super power.”
― SE Zbasnik, Dwarves in Space 2: Family Matters

tags: fantasy, humor, inpirational, obvious-truth, obviousness, science-fiction, super-power

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“Didn't I know the worst dangers weren't the obvious ones?”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

tags: dangers, obviousness

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