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Trivial Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
- I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged…
- The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
- I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in…
- In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its…
More Trivial Quotes
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer… — Charles Baudelaire
- Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and… — Max Beerbohm
- We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been… — Gael Garcia Bernal
- There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great… — Niels Bohr
- Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only… — Niels Bohr
- In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Julius Caesar
- A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never… — Carlos Castaneda
- I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb
- There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke