Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its…

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Sometimes wisdom is simply the ability to recognize the truth, and to speak you heart, in spite of everything you fear to be true.”

— Erica Verrillo

Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial…

— Madeleine Vionnet

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

— Andrew Wyeth

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;…

— Franz Kafka

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like…

— Mary Tyler Moore

People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

— Louis Leakey

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

— Lamman Rucker

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer,…

— Margaret Fuller

The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays…

— William Howard Taft

“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is…

— Jamgon Kongtrul

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to…

— Theodore Zeldin