Evident Quotes

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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you… — Dave Matthews
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts… — Isaac Newton
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the… — Samuel Adams
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must… — Hannah Whitall Smith
It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's… — Prince Charles
From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also… — Michael Palin
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder,… — Patrick O'Brian
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
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
Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored. — David Walker
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to… — Terence McKenna
A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own… — Hans Zimmer
...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire… — Pope Francis
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… — Thomas Huxley
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. — Michel de Montaigne

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