Triviality Quotes

61 quotes by 57 authors

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
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
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. — Thomas Carlyle
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
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? — Annie Dillard
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco
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
When one writes, thereâ€™s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear. — Deborah Eisenberg
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
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and… — Erich Fromm
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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