Platitudes Quotes
67 Platitudes quotes by 61 unique authors
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
— Stanley Baldwin
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
— Karl Marx
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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
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
— Stephen Batchelor
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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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
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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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
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We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
— Richard J. Daley
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
— Colin Powell
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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
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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
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
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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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Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many.…
— Robert Grudin
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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Principles without programs are platitudes.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
— Winston Churchill
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One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most…
— Edward Gibbon
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