Axiomatic Quotes

#1. Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas

#2. I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

Lenny Abrahamson

#3. It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

Steven Soderbergh

#4. It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#5. We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there's that SCI-FI shit.

Hal Duncan

#6. A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

James Joseph Sylvester

#7. For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others - for their use and to our detriment.

Audre Lorde

#8. Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

#9. It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

Christopher Buckley

#10. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Idries Shah

#11. I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

Quentin Crisp

#12. The axiomatic method is very powerful

Kurt Godel

#13. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.

Aldous Huxley

#14. Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

Felix Frankfurter

#15. If you can't do it with brainpower, you can't do it with manpower - overtime," is axiomatic with me.

Clarence L. Johnson

#16. If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Dennis Kucinich

#17. Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

Greg Perry

#18. Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

Kiana Davenport

#19. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

F.F. Bruce

#20. We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

Frederic Bastiat

#21. It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Paul Theroux

#22. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

Judith Lewis Herman

#23. A Nonstandard Graph, Elements and Operations, a Card Game Dialect A combination of the Mold dialects and Sandwich graphs, backed by axiomatic math, creates a unique space of science and fantasy.

J.M.K. Walkow

#24. It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time; conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

#25. It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

Arlene Francis

#26. The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

Ziauddin Sardar

#27. The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. "By," said Gwyn, "there's axiomatic.

Alan Garner

#28. The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Bertrand Russell

#29. Liars lie to others and they lie to themselves without even the concept of lying arising in their minds because this concept doesn't exist for them. There is no judgment, remorse, guilt, worry, or condemnation because lying is not a right or wrong thing. It just is. An axiomatic "Given." To

Alexandra York

#30. It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

George Will

#31. It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

James O'Shaughnessy