Norman Foster

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.

British Architect

Lawrence M. Krauss

When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects.

American Physicist

H. P. Lovecraft

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

American Novelist

Leo Buscaglia

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

American Author

Sheldon Whitehouse

To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important.

American Politician

Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Irish Poet

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

English Novelist

Stanley Baldwin

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

English Statesman

Van Wyck Brooks

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

American Critic

Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

British Writer

Platitudes often sound meaningful but are so overused they've lost impact.

Overused Expressions

Using platitudes can make writing seem lazy or uninspired.

Avoid in Writing

A platitude won't usually persuade someone, as it lacks depth and originality.

Not Persuasive

Platitudes often appear in the form of advice but tend to be generic and vague.

Unoriginal Advice

Platitudes are not insightful, despite sometimes sounding profound at first.

Not Insightful

Beware of platitudes disguised as wisdom, they often oversimplify complex issues.

Faux Wisdom

 I started to look at teamwork and determination. And basically, all those platitudes they call "successories" that hang with that schmaltzy art in boardrooms around the world right now, that stuff -- it's suddenly all been turned on its head. Safety. Safety first is

Learning from dirty jobs...

 right now but there's two phase two everything isn't there now a lot of you are going to die of old age but some of you horribly enough are going to die in an accident and that's the fate of a platitude earth if we're lucky enough if it doesn't get hit by a pale