Here it is that the self-taught man comes to grief and often misses the mere truisms of traditional teaching.

With and without being direct opposites, this alternative is a thing of course, and the phrase is an idle truism.

Speaking of himself as the co-eternal Son, I say;for how superfluous would it have been, a truism how unworthy of our Lord, to have said in effect, that "a creature is less than God!"

There would be no necessity for the Salic law: it would be a superfluous truism.

It is accordingly assumed, with much complacency in his critical pages, that Tory writers are classical and courtly as a matter of course; as it is a standing jest and evident truism, that Whigs and Reformers must be persons of low birth and breedingimputations from one of which he himself has narrowly escaped, and both of which he holds in suitable abhorrence.

Again, what would become of the Posthaec meminisse juvabit of the poet, if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature, or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism?

It is a mathematical truism that you cannot contract the infinite, and that you can expand the individual; and it is precisely on these lines that evolution works.

Yet think of the many knots of monitory truisms in which activity is likely to be caught and entangled at the outset,knots which a brave purpose will not waste time to untie, but instantly cuts.

This obvious truism is often forgotten by those who look on finance as an independent influence that can make money power out of nothing; and those who forget it are very likely to find themselves entangled in a maze of error.

Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be."

"What a ridiculous truism!" said Nino, laughing outright.

They express the sanguine and heroic truisms on which civilization is built; for it is clear that unless civilization is built on truisms, it is not built at all.

Indeed, there are, as Shakespeare's contented Duke says, "books in the running brooks, and good in every thing;" and so far from neglecting to turn the ill-wind to our account, we are disposed to venture a few seasonable truisms for the gratification of our readers, although a wag may say our subject is a dry one.

Still, as the sermon contained a proper amount of theological truisms, and had a sufficiency of general orthodoxy to cover a portion of its political bearing, it gave far more dissatisfaction to a few of the knowing, than to the multitude.

And so on for an hour, over themes of every nature, the current of conversation rippled with trite truisms, and whirling in the surface-eddies of Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy."

This is why even a philosopher's conversation does not consist of a rehearsal of all the unchallenged truisms that he can remember.

Notwithstanding this encomium, the workman knocked off early to sit on my bench and indulge in the expression of certain undeniable but vague truisms, such as that while there is life there is hope, and it isn't necessary to display a marriage license in order to purchase a plain gold band.

The acceptation is so common, it has been so long received as a truism unquestionable as unquestioned, as well in Spain as in Great Britain, of British commerce being one-sided, and carrying a large yearly balance against the Peninsular state, that these figures of relative and approximate quantities can hardly fail to excite a degree of astonishment and of doubt also.

"That is a venerable truism.

An apt figure may put a new face upon an old and much worn truism, and a vital analogy may reach and move the reason.

" He garnished this absurd truism with a wave of his hand so solemn that Donnegan was chilled; as though the fat man were actually conversant with the Three Sisters.

To be told that she cooked badly had long ceased to be an insult, and was becoming merely a worrying truism.

A young man about town once remarked to me, in the tone of one who utters an accepted truism: "It is so much more interesting to talk about people than things."

This is an apparent truism, and yet not true.

Ambiguity of design with much propriety he makes to overflow with the most praiseworthy principles; and sage maxims are not infrequently put in the mouth of stupidity, to show how easily such commonplace truisms may be acquired.