Top Self-Evident Quotes
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
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
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer 
78% of people like this quote
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
62% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this 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
58% of people like this quote
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen
56% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
53% of people like this quote
Popular Self-Evident Authors
Mohandas GandhiThomas JeffersonWilliam HazlittEric HofferArthur SchopenhauerAnthony TrollopeDag HammarskjoldThomas B. MacaulayElizabeth Cady Stanton
Rene DescartesMichael NesmithJonathan FranzenMorris Raphael CohenAbraham Joshua HeschelErnestine L. RoseHans-Georg GadamerErnest LawrenceJohn W. Vessey, Jr.
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