Definition of Self-Evident

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Definition of Self-Evident
	Self-evident Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. Related Definitions: As, Bare, Certainty, Conviction, Evident, Mind, Or, Presentation, Producing, Proof, Proposition, Reasoning, Self-Evident, The, To, Truth, Upon, Without

Self-Evident Quotations

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

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

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

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

Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes

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

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

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

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

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-Evident Translations

self-evident in Dutch is vanzelfsprekend

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