Shallowness Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand,…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.
— Harbhajan Singh
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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
— Isaac Barrow
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It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness…
— Learned Hand
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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy…
— Martha Plimpton
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"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens…
— Florence King
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The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs…
— Steven Pressfield
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
— Oscar Wilde
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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness,…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I…
— Neal Shusterman
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty…
— Oscar Wilde
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Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.
— Franny Billingsley
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I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely…
— Wallace Stegner
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Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions;…
— Neil Postman
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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
— Alex Shakar
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The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
Who Wrote These Shallowness Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Shallowness Quotes as follows: