Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 306 authors

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
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. — Brigitte Bardot
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
It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? — Mark Addy
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. — William S. Burroughs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. — Richard Rorty
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
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
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare
It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. — Edith Hamilton

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