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

Stars shine. This is self evident. What is not so evident however is the fact that it is not a passive activity but instead an active one. — Charles Michael Landry

Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America. — Jennifer Harrison

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

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. — Franz Grillparzer

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. — John W. Vessey Jr.

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

If you can't make something self-evident, you at least need to make it self-explanatory. — Steve Krug

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

What is moral is self-evident. — Friedrich Theodor Vischer

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them. — Jacob Neusner

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically self-evident. — Julian Barnes

We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can't wear metal armor. — Austin Grossman

Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better. — Steve Krug

One of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler

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

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

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

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator. — John Henry Newman

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. — Jonathan Franzen

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer

Everything is self-evident. — Rene Descartes

Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained. — Dada Bhagwan

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

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. — C.S. Lewis

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

Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it 'self-evident'. — Terry Goodkind

I learned this living among a people whom I would never have chosen, because the privileges of being black are not always self-evident. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We hold this myth to be potential
Not self-evident but equational
Another Dimension
Of another kind of Living Life — Sun Ra

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

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

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

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back... — Joe Matlock

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living. — Thomas Jefferson

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. — Barack Obama

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

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

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth. — Ian McEwan

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

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, — Louis Althusser

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

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

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. — Idries Shah

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. — Ernestine Rose

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

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. — Martin Buber

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. — William Hazlitt

Hegemonic theory focuses on the ideology producing institutions which require that ideologies become self-evident assumptions. — Mark Dice

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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. — Jon Brion

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind. — John Stuart Mill

There's no point in denying the truth when the truth is self-evident. — M.R. Carey

The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists — Jostein Gaarder

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