Faith Baldwin
Author
"Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad."
Truism quotes
Truism
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Never utter the truism but live it among men."
Simon Barnes
Journalist
"It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"cliches are truisms and all truisms are true"
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"There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism."
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"You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables."
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