Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you measure success by the amount of things you own, then you may end up forever alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.” — Mickey Zucker Reichert Copy Share Image
“refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“For they do not look through to the soul, nor have a keen eye for virtue, but they stop at the outward… — Anna Comnena Copy Share Image
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Even if the system is obsessed with adulthood, it does not raise "adults"; it rewards permanent adolescence. The intellect is numbed by… — Sov8840 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
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I hate social networks! Pictures don't define beauty, words don't define beauty, but personality does. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The makeup of life; to smother yourself with superficial beliefs so you can be accepted by society. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“Superficiality,” said Richard Foster, “is the curse of our age.” The desperate need of the soul is not for intelligence, nor talent,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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