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1 " Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover. "
― Siri Hustvedt , A Plea for Eros: Essays
2 " Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. "
― Idries Shah
3 " And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre. "
― George Orwell , 1984
4 " Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. "
