Superficial Quotes
357 quotes by 306 authors
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed…
— Aristotle
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I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may…
— Jean Baudrillard
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It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?
— Mark Addy
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
— William S. Burroughs
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a…
— David Brainerd
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Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood…
— Nannie Helen Burroughs
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original…
— Murray Rothbard
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Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
— Murray Rothbard
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look…
— Eddie Murphy
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To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or…
— Henri Nouwen
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
— Richard Rorty
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Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also…
— Rajneesh
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Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live…
— Rajneesh
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
— Augustus William Hare
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
— Edith Hamilton
Who Wrote These Superficial Quotes
306 authors contributed a total of 357 Superficial Quotes, led by these top contributors: