Shows Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image “It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shows Treatment Trifles
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy. — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true. — Martha Albrand Copy Share Image
Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image