There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I used to look at fashion from a superficial standpoint, and I can admit now that I wasn't so nice of a… — Lauren Wasser Copy Share Image
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that people would judge my songs based on what I wore, but that's how it is... superficial. I don't really… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit,… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there… — Agostino Scilla Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there. — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
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