Impatience Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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