Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts."
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Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
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"If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false."
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"We can't always take the most obvious road in life."
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"Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood"
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"He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all."
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"Make subtlety obvious."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
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"It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself."
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"I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious."
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"Things always become obvious after the fact"
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"Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious."
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"you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious."
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"If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work."
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"Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent."
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"The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one."
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"Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about."
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"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
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"The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive."
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"The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious."
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