To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of…

“trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.”

— Victor Hugo

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will…

— Sam Harris

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

— Bertrand Russell

In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved…

— Bertrand Russell

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know…

— Bertrand Russell

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

— Hilda Doolittle

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

— Anonymous

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

— Thomas Carlyle

A lot of people pass off adolescent depression as something trivial.

— Lacey Sturm

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

— Megan McCafferty

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

— Aldo Leopold

“...anything I do is trivial and meaningless because I'm not in a relationship and I don't have children.”

— Dolly Alderton

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

— David D. Burns