Truism Quotes - Page 2

• The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

  Percy Jewett Burrell

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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• 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

  Reality, Conservative, Enough

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• It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Henry George

  Business, Wages, World

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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• Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.

  Jason Pierce

  Believe, Heart, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas, People, Mind

  Source: www.iww.org

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• It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

  Simon Barnes

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• 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

  Self, Comedy, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.

  Lynne Tillman

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• 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

  Children, Giving, Cooking

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• My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely different question and leads to other kinds of advice and other kind of experts. All you can do is someone planted in my mind very early on, this wonderful truism called, "Fortune favors the prepared mind." Be passionate about being a musician. There is no limit to how hard you must work and how detailed you must be in every facet of what you do, either as a singer, as a musician, or as a person.

  Thomas Hampson

  Advice, Mind, Singing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Intelligent, Unique

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Theory, Series

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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  P. J. Plauger

  Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Procrastination

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• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

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• So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

  Warren Buffett

  Hurt, Fall, Golf

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• 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

  Old Things, Waiting, Psychology

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• It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Want Something, Stronger, That One Person

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• About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Controversial, Significant

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Faculty Members, Intellectual, Generations

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moral, Feels

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Simple, Marketing, Never Forget

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• I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

  Harland Miller

  Art, Thinking, Flats

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Yesterday, Discovery, Add

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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