Self Evident Quotes

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Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral beingâ€¦ and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right… — Angelina Grimke
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
"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
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
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
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
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
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you… — Jonathan Franzen
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of… — Ernestine Rose
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or… — Karen Armstrong
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are… — Rob Pike
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called… — Hugo Ball
Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have… — John Stuart Mill
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
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 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

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