It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its…

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

— Henry George

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

— Michael Hudson

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

— James Whistler

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals…

— Eric Alterman

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean…

— Billy Collins

... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one…

— Garry Kasparov

“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.”

— Agatha Christie

“Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.”

— Anonymous

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

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life is difficult.”

— M. Scott Peck