Quotes on Obviousness

Never assume the obvious is true.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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.

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals 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.