Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life,… — Rajneesh
Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach… — Rajneesh
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. — Clifton Fadiman
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. — Unknown Author
Believe me, nothing is trivial — Brandon Lee
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder… — Stephen Hawking
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things. — Joe Hyams
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the… — Edward Abbey
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,… — Boethius
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement.… — B.F. Skinner
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is… — Raymond Chandler
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,… — William A. Niskanen
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about… — Anton Chekhov
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of… — William Golding
Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path.… — Wayne Dyer
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon… — John F. Akers
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. — David Jeremiah
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the… — Rene Dubos
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. — Paulo Coelho

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