Eloquence Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero Download Open image “If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eloquence Evident Ifs Self Truth Unnecessary Would be
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating. — J. Martin Klotsche Copy Share Image
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A nation built on ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ cannot long survive when its people are taught that no truth is self-evident… — Brutus Copy Share Image
That the existence of false evidence is erased when the error is never exposed to the truth — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
History tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“it is unmistakable; it does not need other proofs to back it up; it is self-evident and attests to its own truth.” — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image