Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious. — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
“If my vision comes to a halt at the surface of a thing, I have missed the whole of the thing.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it? — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. — David Platt Copy Share Image
When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of… — Boaz Lavie Copy Share Image
If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness… — Billy Graham 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
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should… — Shane Leslie Copy Share Image
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
