Quotes About Trivial

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Every moment in our lives seems trivial," Zahel said. "Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots.

Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.

Why should pensiveness be akin to sadness? There is a certain fertile sadness which I would not avoid, but rather earnestly seek. It is positively joyful to me. It saves my life from being trivial.

O convívio social, geralmente, é banal demais

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything.

The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence.

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation, especially if it is based on the self-analysis of a mature mind and is written with no vain desire to rouse our sympathy and curiosity. The problem with Rousseau's Confessions is that he read them to his friends.

they] nurtured a secret love for the cowards, for without them their courage would soon erode into a trivial, monotonous grind admired by no-one.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

One stupid quiz about one stupid thing that happened three hundred years ago to a bunch of people nobody cared about, that didn't have anything to do with real life.

We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.

People die every day. That was the most comforting thought Brás had while all the obituaries he wrote at the newspaper flashed before him. He just realized that, even when he's not writing about it, people will keep dying. Isn't it funny how easily forget about work the moment they leave for the day? Isn't it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives, yet we so often forget the most important ones?

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

In practice, organizational change tends to be either trivial or traumatic. Every day, companies refresh products and improve processes with little drama. Strategic pivots, by contrast, tend to be convulsive, not unlike the uprisings that occasionally concuss poorly governed dictatorships.

The sad reality is that when we get married for trivial reasons, we will seek divorce for trivial reasons. We need something much more lasting on which to base a lifelong commitment—one that even has eternal implications.

If you haven't considered concurrent access in your class design, some of these approaches can require significant design modifications, so fixing the problem might not be as trivial as this advice makes it sound. It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later. In

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.