Trivialities Quotes

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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile. — Unknown Author
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post
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
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
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
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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