Top 99 Quotes About Truism
#1. The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
John Podhoretz
#2. It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.
Keith Laumer
#4. It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.
Tim Wu
#5. there is the truism, so ably articulated by Luther in his response to Erasmus on the will, that the task of the preacher is to preach God's Word, not to second-guess what the practical problems such causes may
Andrew David Naselli
#6. She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
Michael Connelly
#7. There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. 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 of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#9. It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.
Peter Medawar
#10. It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#11. Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
Agatha Christie
#12. The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. 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 and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
Ranulph Fiennes
#14. There is the natural liar ... Always says the thing that sounds best.
Agatha Christie
#15. There's certainly something to be said about the old truism Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Vi Keeland
#16. Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
Faith Baldwin
#17. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
#18. I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
Suzanne Finnamore
#19. That's writing, I suppose - dozens of decisions about what's in, what's out, what goes with what, what's clever but not honest, what's so honest that it's a truism, what's meretricious - and all just to produce one short sketch.
David Mitchell
#20. It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.
Luo Guanzhong
#21. Hm ... yes ... a man holds the fate of the world in his two hands, and yet, simply because he is afraid, he just lets things drift
that is a truism ... I wonder what men are most afraid of ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. The logic underlying the truism that one should always travel on a plane with a book is also precisely why bed-and-breakfast culture is to be avoided if at all possible. Namely, you might have to talk to someone.
David Rakoff
#23. You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil.
Michael Pollan
#24. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.
Gloria Steinem
#25. You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
#26. An ancient truism had once decreed, Self-improvement is masturbation. ...
Anonymous
#27. People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another?
Sam Taylor
#28. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
Betsy Talbot
#29. It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
Ezra Taft Benson
#30. Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.
James A. Haught
#31. It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.
Tom Wicker
#32. Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
Barry Ritholtz
#33. Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
#34. It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#35. It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#36. It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.
Simon Barnes
#37. She tried to comfort herself with the idea, that what he imagined her to be, did not alter the fact of what she was. But it was a truism, a phantom, and broke down under the weight of her regret. She
Elizabeth Gaskell
#38. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.
Hunter S. Thompson
#39. There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We
Burton G. Malkiel
#40. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
Which roughly translates as
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers.
Juvenal
#41. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.
Stephen King
#42. You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.
A.S. Byatt
#43. Fey ... a Scotch word ... It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know
it's too good to be true.
Agatha Christie
#44. I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.
Rob Chapman
#45. It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
#46. 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 be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
Tom Robbins
#47. It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.
Charlotte Lamb
#48. One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
Alain De Botton
#49. I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.
Alexander Siddig
#51. 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 even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.
Shashi Tharoor
#52. If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this
Peyton Manning
#53. Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
Norman Finkelstein
#54. Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Nina Easton
#55. It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
#56. The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.
Tom McCall
#58. Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world.
Hugh Halter
#59. An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.
Djayawarman Alamprabu
#60. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#61. There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.
Tilar J. Mazzeo
#62. This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.
Marni Jackson
#63. Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
George Bernard Shaw
#64. The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
J.L. Austin
#65. He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
Honore De Balzac
#66. Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
#67. Life without knowledge is death in disguise ...
Talib Kweli
#68. Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.
From GLASS HALF FULL
Sarah Jane Butfield
#69. It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore.
Margaret Heffernan
#70. In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive.
Roman Payne
#72. It is an ancient truism that we learn to do by doing.
Anonymous
#73. Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end.
Anthony Ryan
#74. The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan F. Stone
#75. You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.
Marieke Nijkamp
#76. 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 tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
John Logan
#78. But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares - generally speaking, nobody even notices.
Jeff Lindsay
#79. It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
Robert Sheckley
#80. Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.
Jonathan Alter
#81. The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.
Noam Chomsky
#83. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Anne Fadiman
#84. But they are practically brother and sister," ejaculated Marina, thinking as many stupid people do that "practically" works both ways - reducing the truth of a statement and making a truism sound like the truth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#87. The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
Marco Rubio
#88. It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
Louis Freeh
#89. Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
Charles Lamb
#90. The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
David Bowie
#91. People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
#92. I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.
Karen Essex
#94. There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.
Ari Graynor
#95. It's a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn't a truism because most policemen think the word 'empirical' is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.
Ben Aaronovitch
#96. 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 are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.
James Surowiecki
#97. I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.
Harland Miller
#98. It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Bruce Sterling
#99. 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
