Self Evident Quotes

105 Self Evident quotes by 82 unique authors

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
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I… — Isaac Asimov
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve… — Alain de Botton
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To… — Tana French
[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. — Barack Obama
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone.… — Leo Tolstoy
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We… — Thomas Jefferson
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always… — John Ridley
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. — Stephen Covey
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things… — Michael Leunig
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. — Aristotle
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent… — Thomas Frank
While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by… — Sam Harris
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take… — Michael Nesmith
History tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing. — Barack Obama

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