“Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.” — John Furia Jr Copy Share Image
“So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Plans become Platitudes, if you don't have Passion and Persistence to Execute them!” — Manprit Kaur Copy Share Image
“When you’re faced with tragedy,18 you usually find that you’re no longer surrounded by people—you’re surrounded by platitudes.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
