Top 35 Quotes About Truisms
#2. truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And
Noam Chomsky
#3. I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.
Harland Miller
#4. Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.
David Z. Hirsch
#5. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Cliff Stearns
#6. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.
George Orwell
#7. 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 a strength program easier, you will get weaker.
Bill Starr
#8. The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
J.L. Austin
#9. So here are our truisms about truth:
Truth is objective.
Truth is good.
Truth is a worthy goal of inquiry.
Truth is worth caring about for its own sake.
Michael P. Lynch
#10. One of the truisms of CrossFit is that you should do the thing you hate most, because it's only in mastery that the hate will dissipate.
Stephen Madden
#11. It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
Frank Gaffney
#12. Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...
Garry Kasparov
#13. There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.
Eddie Whitlock
#14. People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.
Julia Quinn
#15. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.
Kate Hattemer
#16. cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
Jack Kerouac
#17. Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
Idries Shah
#18. The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!
George Orwell
#19. 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
#20. The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.
Arthur Koestler
#21. Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[ ... ]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
Steven Brust
#22. The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
Noam Chomsky
#24. Follow the rules until you make them.
Luke Green
#25. I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.
Karen Essex
#27. But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life ...
Sally Gardner
#29. The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.
Warren Eyster
#30. Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
Charles Stross
#32. You never know what's coming for ya" from the 2008 American romantic fantasy drama film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', directed by David Fincher.
Unknown
#33. If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
#34. She shrugged."I always put in long hours. I really wanted a wife."
He leaned toward her."Jilliam, honey, The whole world wants a wife. But we're gonna have to make do ...
Robyn Carr
#35. Just because someone's a pain in the ass in life, doesn't mean when they're dead, we shouldn't be respectful.
M. Judeth Nelson
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