“Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.” TwoTerribleConversationTheatreOccasionsCommonplacePlatitudesPropagation Author:Miguel de Unamuno
“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenFeelsFunSuccessfulSilentProfoundAshamedSpeakersSuperficialPlatitudesSuccessful Man Book:From a writer's notebook Source: From a writer's notebook
“The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.” HumansHuman NatureChangedIgnoranceDepthIgnorantTiresomePlatitudes Author:Bertrand Russell