self-evident quotes

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as 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.