Self Evidence Quotes

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

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

It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a dream. It's a great dream.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

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.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

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

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.

Everything is self-evident.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

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.

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

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

The truth does not need to be defended.

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 darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

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

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

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

When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

I would like to do my own daily talk show. Wisdom is the gift of ageing; no young person can have or buy it. My success was and is self-evident. I'm alive. I've lived. I've thrived and have grown as a person. I'm now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that?

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

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