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
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
Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a… — Jonathan Alter 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 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
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro 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 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
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
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Which roughly translates as Who will Guard the Guardians, or Who watches the watchers.” — Juvenal 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
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky 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
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has… — Ari Graynor 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
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
Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete… — Avicenna 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
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