Trivial Quotes
401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
— Maimonides
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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
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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
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
— Ted Cruz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.
— Jamy Ian Swiss
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.
— Kurt Gödel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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