Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of…

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making…

— Wendell Berry

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to…

— Anthon St. Maarten

“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the…

— Umberto Eco

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He…

— Edith Wharton

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

It's better to shake off superficial sometimes fake friends. There's a lot of truth in the old saying birds of a feather flock together.

— Anonymous

“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that I had…

— Bret Easton Ellis

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

— Richard J. Foster

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless…

— Barry Diller

“Many people measure their self-worth based on how much money they make... once one is able to provide for basic physical needs (food shelter,…

— Mark Manson