Truism Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to…
— Tom Robbins
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
— Harlan F. Stone
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that…
— James Surowiecki
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As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on…
— John F. Kennedy
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
— William Safire
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when…
— Vita Sackville-West
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And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
— Frederick Buechner
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
— George Orwell
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India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But…
— Shashi Tharoor
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The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be…
— Henry Hazlitt
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing…
— Ranulph Fiennes
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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a…
— Avicenna
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Never utter the truism but live it among men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make…
— Bill Starr
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