A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson Copy Share Image
There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile. — Jules Eckert Goodman Copy Share Image
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
