Platitudes Quotes
Platitudes Quote of the day
I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.
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.
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. And, that's a whole other story.
