Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial. — George Saunders
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. — William James
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. — Edwin Land
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. — Mary McCarthy
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general… — George Orwell
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. — Albert Einstein
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford
O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life.… — Henry Ward Beecher
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can… — Richard Dawkins
Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group… — James F. Amos
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. — Frank P. Ramsey
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law… — Tess Gerritsen
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. — Allegra Huston
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I… — Gretchen Rubin
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. — Richard Dawkins
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to… — Simon Schama
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths,… — Thomas Pogge
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn… — Timothy Noah
When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly. — Paul Henderson
A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal… — Terry Wogan
Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see. — Richard Armitage
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance… — Paul Di Filippo
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. — William Bennett

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