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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Mark Doty
- Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor