Top 642 Trivial Quotes & Sayings

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

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

Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the problem is so trivial in comparison to the problems of human beings that no sensible person could give it time and attention. This too is a prejudice - for how can one know that a problem is trivial until one has taken the time to examine its extent?

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life.

I don't want to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

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

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.