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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else. -- Ambrose Bierce
In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past. -- Emily Giffin
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. -- Francesco Guicciardini
I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone. -- Paul Westerberg
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. -- Millard Fillmore
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. -- Ayn Rand
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. -- Ambrose Bierce
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. -- Susan Collins
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. -- Blaise Pascal
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. -- James Prescott Joule
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets. -- Henry Paulson
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. -- J. I. Packer
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. -- F. Sionil Jose
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. -- Jan Hus
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
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. -- Noah Webster
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. -- Samuel Johnson
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. -- Carol P. Christ
The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences. -- Spike Lee
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics. -- Stone Gossard
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights. -- Mike Crapo
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win. -- Jane Smiley
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. -- David Petraeus
Everything is self-evident. -- Rene Descartes
His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes. -- Yukio Mishima
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
New truths become evident when new tools become available. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things. -- Felix Klein
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Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. -- Olafur Eliasson
The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, -- Louis Althusser
Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos. -- Camille Paglia
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. -- Bertrand Russell
If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you. -- William Lane Craig
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. -- John Owen
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them. -- John Tillotson
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator. -- John Henry Newman
The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace. -- Amado Nervo
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. -- Eric Hoffer
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. -- Madeleine Albright
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. -- Walter Lippmann
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. -- Kedar Joshi
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. -- Arthur Koestler
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. -- John Owen
The understanding eye sees the maker's fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints. -- James Krenov
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable. -- Werner Herzog
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. -- Ouida
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. -- Epictetus
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. -- Chuck Missler
[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. -- Barack Obama
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. -- Saint Augustine
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. -- Alan Dershowitz
The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident. -- David Rockefeller
[Peace in Syria] is [AntÃ³nio Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident. -- Bashar al-Assad
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. -- Michel de Montaigne
Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied. -- T. J. MacGregor
As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea. -- Christine Downing
Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind. -- Kedar Joshi
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. -- Criss Jami
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart. -- Richard Sibbes
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident. -- Laurie Helgoe
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. -- Anthony Trollope
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. -- Barbara Amiel
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing. -- Yves Behar
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. -- Seneca the Younger
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry. -- Ben Barnes
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. -- Carroll Quigley
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go. -- Trevor Dunn
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. -- John Gay
To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly. -- Philip Neri
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. -- Ptolemy
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. -- W. H. Auden
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. -- E. L. Doctorow
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. -- William Blake
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players. -- Alan Pardew
Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored. -- David Walker
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. -- Carl Sagan
No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men. -- David Hume
Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming. -- Harrison Schmitt
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident. -- Stephen Covey
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. -- Edward Snowden
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. -- Thomas Huxley
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. -- Richard P. Feynman
Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. -- Jane Austen
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
She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, "They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream?" -- Poppet
I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook. -- Lewis Schiff
I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet. -- Elizabeth Lesser
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. -- Saint Augustine
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation. -- Christiaan Huygens
I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing. -- Christine Caine
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
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
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
The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. -- William MacDonald
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write. -- Nick Cave
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
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
The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead. -- Roderick E. Stevens

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