It is perhaps a better truism to say that action, with knowledge, is power.
It is a mere truism to say that luxury and extravagance are not good for a Nation.
This will never do, said I; a toad in the heart of a tree lives a more comfortable life than a nothing-doing man; and I began to perceive a very deep meaning in the truism of "something being better than nothing.
This important truism (we say important, for it seems to have been not seldom overlooked) makes the foundation of all his future observations; nor can he advance a step without continual reference to this double nature.
If by "the infinite in thought" is here meant the infinite compassed or contained in thought, we readily grant that the finite can not contain the infinite; it is a simple truism which no one has ever been so foolish as to deny.
It were a truism for one who believes in God to say that such catastrophes, so rending, so frightful, never come but where they are needed.
Yet in their brain that truism must rattle until they shift it to its rightful quarters in their heart, where it will rattle no longer but take root and be a strength and loveliness.
Is not this almost a truism in the Roman controversy?
It is a truism to say that when the reader perceives that the author can compel his characters to do what he pleases all interest in them as real persons is gone.
It would be but a truism to repeat what has been again alleged (in ignorance of its real rationale) by hundreds and hundreds of writers as to the happiness and content conferred by a life of innocence and purity.
This is a truism doubtless, but it is most pertinent to the present case.
This again should surely be no more than the truism that it sounds; but practically it would seem to be no less than an adventurous and audacious paradox.
Surely it is a truism that every drama from beginning to end contains a moral.
It is a library truism that a librarian can tell from repeated experiences just when a borrower is calling at the library to announce her engagement or to proclaim that his new job has been secured.
It is practically a truism that Jules Simon utters when he says "Le peuple qui a les meilleures ecoles est le premier peuple; s'il ne l'est pas aujourd'hui il le sera demain.
It is merely a truism to say that the invasion of hostile territory across the sea is a much more difficult and hazardous enterprise than the crossing of a land frontier by organized military force.
But it is no truism to say that the reason why it is so much more difficult and more hazardous is that there is no real parallel between the two cases.
Yet should any one take this truism as an unfailing formula and expect to enter the golden gate of eternal life because of obedience to the letter of the pass-word, he would fail.
As above so below, and as below so above," is a truismwhich we may safely take as our first maxim.
This was a fact or condition not recognized very generally in those days; in after years it became a truism in popular opinion.
Christianity was the answer to a riddle, not the last truism uttered after a long talk.
It is a truism of psychology that the terms of a proposition, when closely interrogated, turn out to be nothing but abbreviated judgments.
If we restrict the term “thought” to the operation of naming, it is merely a truism to say that there can be no thought without language; for this is merely to say that there can be no naming without names.
Now this statement appears to me either a truism or untrue: it is either tautological in expression, or erroneous in fact.
In reality the sentiment is so far from a truism that it would have excited ridicule in any previous age; it might almost be said to contain the fundamental error which is responsible for the low state of culture in the country.
Now the noteworthy thing about this particular sentence is the fact that it was set down as a mere truism needing no proof, and that it was no doubt so accepted by most readers of the book.
The war has proved a truism that old saying, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," and also that the burden of war falls upon women.
It may be a truism to say that a human life is the most precious of all created things; but it is a truism of which we are only now, to our bitter and incalculable cost, beginning to realize the truth.
What greater reward can a good worker desire than that the next generation should forget him, regarding as an obsolete truism work which his own generation called a visionary fanaticism?
It has passed into a sort of truism that there is nothing which money cannot accomplish--analyse it, and you will find that it is not a truism but a popular fallacy.
He accepted a truism of to-day in pointing out that in any matters connected with aerial investigation, theory and practice are as widely apart as the poles.
It is a truism that some actions most important to ourselves or others often seem but pure whim.
There is a lack of finality in the judgment of this world; even members of it could be brought to agree, if you specifically raised the point, to the truism about the test through the larger issues in the world outside.
That it was intrinsically valuable was a truism I had never questioned.
But when he challenged thetruism I was speechless.
It is equally a truism that if imitation is the sincerest flattery, the hundreds of written constitutions that have sprung up since 1789 attest the belief that America has successfully put into practical form the theories of democracy.
This is the truismregarding ratios of exchange which many economists have inaccurately applied to value itself in the doctrine that there cannot be a simultaneous rise or fall of values.
