Truism

Unfortunately, it has come to a point that a good test of a political "truism" is that, if a partisan Republican running for or holding office proclaims it, it is probably not true. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The truism is that "correlation is not causation." ❋ M_francis (2009)

By the way, one truism is that people in the popular media tend to view a large number of job losses as more newsworthy than an equivalent number of job additions, particularly if the former are concentrated in some way (in a particular firm, industry, locale, or so on). ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, we realized the old truism from the original cytogenetics which was that the telomere is really important for protecting ends and, as you might expect, the cell actually devotes all sorts of machinery to make sure that never goes wrong, or goes wrong as little as possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It made no sense for anyone to say this to me because *I* was proof that the "truism" -- or some kind of "ism", anyway -- was crap. ❋ Cindy (2010)

And in spite of the obvious leaps beyond reality that shows like “Law & Order” take, one thing that is a truism is the cozy relationship between the police, district attorneys and judges. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before deciding what course to take, Mr. Cameron should recall a truism borne out by the darker chapters of Britain's long island story, including its lack of European allies when the American colonies rebelled or Neville Chamberlain's near-disastrous attempt to stand aloof from the continent in the 1930s. ❋ Hugo Brady (2009)

Besides the surface record as depicted by the climate science orthodoxy, another truism is the depicted record of Arctic sea ice extent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As I say, this is a truism, but, in our avid search for originality, it is sometimes forgotten that a truism is also true. ❋ Unknown (1985)

Recalling the truism that most human characters have a hereditary basis, it is evident that the constitution of society will remain stable from generation to generation, only if each section of society is reproducing at the same rate as every other (and assuming, for the moment, that the death-rate remains constant). ❋ Paul Popenoe (1933)

It may seem banal here to recall the truism that first-class art never reproduces its surroundings; but such banality is often justified by our human proneness to shuffle over the fact that many truisms are true. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

That the end of life is death may be called a truism, since the various kinds of immortality that might perhaps supervene would none of them abolish death, but at best would weave life and death together into the texture of a more comprehensive destiny. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

I base my projected action upon this truism, which is indeed the very kernel of my creed. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Opposed to a truism is a Contradiction in Terms; that is, the denying of ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

To the critic the truism is a sea-worn, foot-trodden pebble; to the obedient scholar, a radiant topaz, which, as he polishes it with the dust of its use, may turn into a diamond. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

This truism, which is in the mouths of thousands while it is in the hearts of scarcely any, was well meant by Sir Wycherly, however plainly expressed. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

"A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device." ❋ Unknown (2009)