Top 736 Evident Quotes & Sayings

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

Here in Sweden and the Nordic countries, we have come a relatively long way when it comes to LGBTQI rights. But what we see as self-evident or at least would like to believe is self-evident - is unthinkable in other parts of the world.

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

When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.

The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

I'm often a firm believer in "the simpler the better" approach and it's evident in my guitar setup.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.

I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.

If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Everything is self-evident.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

It's now evident that public health is part of national security.

As long as we keep winning, that's all it's about. But it's evident I do need the ball.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

If you have to keep telling us that Hillary Clinton’s uber-qualified, there must be some doubt about it. It must not be self-evident. It must not be apparent. And the reason it is not apparent and self-evident is because it isn’t true. The woman is no more qualified to be president than anybody else.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.