Evident Quote by Walter Lippmann

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“What is moral is self-evident.”

— Friedrich Theodor Vischer

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

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

— John Henry Newman

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…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind…

— Jon Brion

The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.

— Pete Hoekstra

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident.…

— Rick Steves

“Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that…

— Charlotte Beers

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal"…

— Abraham Lincoln