Top 1200 Self-Evident Quotes & Sayings

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

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!!!

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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 we live.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

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

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

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

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

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

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

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

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

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

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 the fact that it's hard to describe.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

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 among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

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

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.

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

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

Everything is 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.

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.

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

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

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-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.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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.

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

If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.