Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because… — Roman Jakobson
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate… — Robin Boyd
Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid… — Brennan Manning
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person… — Alfred Hitchcock
Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the… — Paul Washer
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where… — Marcus Aurelius
Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist,… — Chris Guillebeau
Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. — Liu Bei
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial — James Joyce
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. — Ted Koppel
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest. — William Rainey Harper
If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial. — Lou Holtz
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad… — Richard Askey
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings,… — William Wordsworth
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes. — Evgeny Morozov
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved… — Irving Kristol
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun. — Meher Baba

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