Evident Quotes

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.

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

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.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

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.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever.

If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

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

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

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

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

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

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

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

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

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

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

All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.

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

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

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.

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

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

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

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

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it!

Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!