Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a… — Jean Shrimpton
There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the Savior and of… — Richard G. Scott
I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if… — Boris Johnson
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of… — George Gissing
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral… — Carl Jung
Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial. — Jamy Ian Swiss
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention… — Epictetus
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace.… — Gustav Mahler
The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the… — Peter Drucker
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest… — Dorothy Day
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in… — Thomas Merton
In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. — Kurt GÃ¶del
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand,… — Henryk Skolimowski
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better… — Werner Heisenberg
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? — Vernor Vinge
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur — Nicholas D. Kristof
No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner… — Milan Kundera
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for… — Dan Millman
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that… — Peter Medawar
For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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