Trivialities Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
— Max Beerbohm
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To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
— Nevil Shute
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a…
— Niels Bohr
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
— George Eliot
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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself,…
— Walter Gropius
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Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks…
— Maurice Samuel
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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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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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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are…
— Alan K. Simpson
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If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which…
— Nevil Shute
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I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating…
— Henry R. Luce
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Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
— Unknown Author
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Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
— Emily Post
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Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In…
— J. Paul Getty
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During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters…
— E. M. Forster
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