Self Evident Quotes

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What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of… — Max Planck
I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is… — John Muir
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step… — Dag Hammarskjold
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. — William Hazlitt
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that… — Thomas Jefferson
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start… — John W. Vessey, Jr.
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else. — Ambrose Bierce
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing… — Clive Barker
For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of… — Milton Friedman
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers… — Renata Adler
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. — Saint Augustine
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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