If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. — John Gay Copy Share Image
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers… — David A. Kolb Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my… — Solon Copy Share Image
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work,… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
