Obvious
Opposing; fronting.
Exposed; subject; open; liable.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
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Obvious Quotations
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller
Obvious Translations
obvious in Dutch is kennelijk, evident, apert
obvious in Finnish is ilmeinen
obvious in Italian is ovvio, flagrante, distinto
obvious in Spanish is dilucido, visto
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