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.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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.
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.
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
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.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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.
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.
