Evident Quotes

• 

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

  364 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Self, Long, Examination

  Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.315, MIT Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

  145 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Rights, Self, Two

  18 Copy quote

• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

  201 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Strength, War, Self

  9 Copy quote

• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Soul, Bats

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Often Is, Two, Perspective

  16 Copy quote

• Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Government, People

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

  167 Copy quote

  Show source

• Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Independence, Unalienable Rights

  28 Copy quote

• The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Successful, Blessing

  6 Copy quote

• The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Animal

  5 Copy quote

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

  Millard Fillmore

  Country, People, Presidential

  Letter to Henry Clay (11 November 1844); as quoted in "Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson" edited by Bill Adler, 1966.

  127 Copy quote

  Show source

• And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Thinking, Eight

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When clothes wear you, it's pretty evident. You've got to wear the clothes, not the other way around.

  Peter Cincotti

  Clothes, Way

  Source: wwd.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Learning

  12 Copy quote

• That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Miracle, Doe, Prove It

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.268, Letcetera Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Numbers, People, Mind

  25 Copy quote

• 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

  Wise, Self, Cease

  4 Copy quote

• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Self, Goal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Player, Views, Negative

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Life, Hard Work, Generosity

  23 Copy quote

• It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Feel Better, Men

  7 Copy quote

• We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

  Ben Barnes

  Culture, Youth, Film

  12 Copy quote