Truism Quotes

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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
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
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
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman
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
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
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
Never utter the truism but live it among men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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