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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 a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. -- George Orwell
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism. -- Charles Lamb
It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about. -- Simon Barnes
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. -- Robert Sheckley
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
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. -- Arthur Koestler
It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide. -- Luo Guanzhong
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow. -- James Hollis
Excellence does not come easily or quickly-- an excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters! -- Charles Lamb
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever. -- Louis Freeh
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. -- Barry Ritholtz
It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. -- Marco Rubio
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
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
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
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
Never utter the truism but live it among men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. -- Bruce Sterling
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. -- Harlan F. Stone
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. -- James A. Haught
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. -- Faith Baldwin
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.... -- Michael Connelly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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