Platitudes Quotes

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. — Thornton Wilder
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs… — W. Somerset Maugham
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools… — Noam Chomsky
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties… — D. Michael Quinn
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. — Richard J. Daley
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout… — Mary McCarthy
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and… — Russell L. Ackoff

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