Bret Stephens

It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.

American Journalist

Brian Deese

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually first on the chopping block.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

American Writer

Norman Finkelstein

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

American Educator

Frank Gaffney

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.

Laura Moser

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

American Author

Barry Ritholtz

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Ari Graynor

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

American Actress

Ezra Taft Benson

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

American Leader

Louis Freeh

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

American Lawyer

Truisms are often overused phrases that may seem lacking in originality.

Overused Expressions

Start conversations with truisms to find common ground, as they're widely acknowledged.

Conversation Starters

Truisms can be used ironically to point out something that's obviously untrue or silly.

Irony or Sarcasm

 And "Nanette" taught me the truth to that truism. I fully expected by breaking the contract of comedy and telling my story in all its truth and pain that that would push me further into the margins of both life and art.