“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”
“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”
“It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.”
“People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.”
“There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.”