Self-Evident Truth Quotes

If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

No moderate man views it in any other light than as an axiom, or self-evident truth, namely, that if any excuse for disobedience were once admitted, or any indulgence granted to these tender-conscienced inferiors there would be an end of all government in an instant; neither commands nor obedience could proceed one step further, but every individual instrument of power in that fatal society, astonished at the monstrous phenomenon, would stare at one another; all the wheels of the political machine would stop at once. nay would split into ten thou-sand pieces; every relation and connection of their parts would be instantly dissolved, and the beautiful whole would rush into a wild chaos of anarchy and confusion.

The government that governs best, governs best!

Truth is its own defense.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

When [U. S. Senator John] Pettit [of Indiana], in connection with his support of the Nebraska bill [on slavery], called the Declaration of Independence "a self-evident lie," he only did what consistency and candor require all other Nebraska men to do.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

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.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

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

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

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

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

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately