Evident Quotes
391 quotes by 339 authors
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another…
— Erik Satie
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Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right…
— Angelina Grimke
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If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
— William Lane Craig
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Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles…
— Stephen Covey
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at…
— Martin Heidegger
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Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that…
— Murray Rothbard
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,…
— George MacDonald
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Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which…
— Byron White
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I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…
— Lysander Spooner
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Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals…
— Brandon Mull
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It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than…
— Fred Hoyle
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Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming…
— Norman Borlaug
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We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of…
— Teresa of Avila
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The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions…
— Harold Innis
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There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them…
— Matt Labash
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation…
— Humphry Davy
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