Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable… — Erich Fromm
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an… — Bertrand Russell
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them… — Richard Dawkins
Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles… — Robert D. Maurer
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm… — Richey Edwards
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Unknown Author
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his… — Eric Berne
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly,… — Ernest Shackleton
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. — Unknown Author
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of… — David George Hogarth
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters. — Mark McCormack
We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be… — Peter Cosgrove
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and… — Robert Adams
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the… — Peter Singer
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage.… — Du Fu
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen,… — Thomas Boswell
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of… — Aharon Katzir
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. — Dan Buettner
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow

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