About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
All the words of wisdom sound the same.
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
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.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
