Facile Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the… — George Edward Woodberry
Americans have a taste forâ€¦rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the… — Neal Stephenson
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the… — Ming-Dao Deng
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out… — Virginia Woolf
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And… — Haruki Murakami
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them,… — Umberto Eco
The sheer number of things making us feel remorseful is so great that if we don't seek forgiveness, we could end up psychologically disabled. So… — Richard Friedman

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