I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller 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
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth 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
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is… — Bill Starr 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
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins 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
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
“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
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb 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
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
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren 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
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
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image