Facile Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is… — Joseph Story
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the… — Sun Tzu
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as… — Christopher Hitchens
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way… — Robert Rauschenberg
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding… — Charles Duhigg
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not… — George Gaylord Simpson
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter — Tacitus
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens… — Kenny Smith
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get… — Robert M. Gates
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more… — Will Self
The investment business has taught me â€“ increasingly as the years have passed â€“ that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news… — Jeremy Grantham
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,… — Peter York
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. — Jerry Garcia
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. — George Santayana

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