Truism Quotes

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

There's no such thing as altruism.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for it. It's just oddly competitive and the environment and the people who decide to work at non-profits are just really funny to me.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.