It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.