“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Which roughly translates as Who will Guard the Guardians, or Who watches the watchers.” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top… — Michael Connelly 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
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
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
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West 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
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
“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
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
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing… — Jason Pierce 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
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
“Only fools saw mistakes as a bad thing—mistakes were experience, no matter how good or bad.” — Sean R. Frazier 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's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. — Bruce Sterling 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
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