Self-Evident Quotes

26 Self-Evident quotes by 26 unique authors

Everything is self-evident. — Rene Descartes
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
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
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
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
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
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
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.
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

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