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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.
Happy Song' is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave.
Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]
I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
I don't think too seriously about anything, neither does my husband and my son. When we are home, we are constantly laughing over some trivial matters.
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."
To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.
It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.
Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.
I've struggled with that over the years: Is fashion relevant? Is it frivolous? Is it trivial? Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.
All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.
