Platitudes Quotes

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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
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
Principles without programs are platitudes. — George Bernard Shaw
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety. — Winston Churchill
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
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are… — Miguel de Unamuno
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner… — Van Wyck Brooks
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be… — Criss Jami
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
applause, n. The echo of a platitude. — Ambrose Bierce
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant… — Vera Nazarian
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have… — George Steiner
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to… — Che Guevara
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first… — Havelock Ellis
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley

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