Self Evident Quotes

105 Self Evident quotes by 82 unique authors

Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. — Walter Lippmann
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. — Anthony Trollope
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler
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

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