Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and… — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our… — Djayawarman Alamprabu Copy Share Image
I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is… — Bill Starr Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot… — Lynne Tillman 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
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Only fools saw mistakes as a bad thing—mistakes were experience, no matter how good or bad.” — Sean R. Frazier Copy Share Image
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image