Truism Quotes: top 56 famous quotes about Truism

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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind. — Karen Essex

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this — Peyton Manning

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace. — Norman Finkelstein

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

There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — G.K. Chesterton

Life without knowledge is death in disguise ... — Talib Kweli

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman

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

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide. — Luo Guanzhong

Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world. — Hugh Halter

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

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg. — Ernest Hemingway,

An ancient truism had once decreed, Self-improvement is masturbation. ... — Anonymous

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller

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

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. — Barry Ritholtz

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
Which roughly translates as
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers. — Juvenal

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism. — Charles Lamb

The theory of truth is a series of truisms. — J.L. Austin

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley

Life is difficult. — M. Scott Peck

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

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture. — Tilar J. Mazzeo

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. — Bruce Sterling

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

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

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

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. — Faith Baldwin

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever. — Louis Freeh

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

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about. — Simon Barnes

If you want to keep a friend, never test him. — John Steinbeck

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw

There's certainly something to be said about the old truism Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. — Vi Keeland

Never utter the truism but live it among men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question. — Imam Ja'Far Al-Sadiq

It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore. — Margaret Heffernan

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism. — Noam Chomsky

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money. — Ezra Taft Benson

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. — James A. Haught

It is an ancient truism that we learn to do by doing. — Anonymous

There is the natural liar ... Always says the thing that sounds best. — Agatha Christie

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. — Agatha Christie

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. — Don DeLillo

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. — Groucho Marx

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ... — Michael Connelly

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. — Marco Rubio

The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free. — Betsy Talbot

Hell is the denial of the ordinary... — John Ciardi

There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We — Burton G. Malkiel

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive. — Roman Payne