“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie 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
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt 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's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky 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
I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if… — Anonymous 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'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism,… — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets… — James Surowiecki 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
My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is… — Thomas Hampson 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
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
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
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may… — Poul Anderson 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
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
It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. — James A. Haught 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
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace. — Norman Finkelstein 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
“Only fools saw mistakes as a bad thing—mistakes were experience, no matter how good or bad.” — Sean R. Frazier Copy Share Image
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