Nature of man Quote by Victor Hugo

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is…

— Bertrand Russell

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

— John Roberts

“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do…

— Victor Hugo

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

— Victor Hugo

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand…

— Clifford Geertz

“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell us that…

— Victor Hugo

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

— Anonymous

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

— Thomas Carlyle

A lot of people pass off adolescent depression as something trivial.

— Lacey Sturm

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

— Megan McCafferty