Superficial Quotes

357 Superficial quotes by 300 unique authors

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. — Ross Perot
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. — Edgar Allan Poe
Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you… — Miuccia Prada
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at… — Paul Rand
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. — Eric Ries
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability… — Amy Tan
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's… — Donatella Versace
I am a deeply superficial person. — Andy Warhol
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and… — Judith Wright
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. — Andrew Wyeth
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build… — Dag Hammarskjold
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in… — Thomas Paine
Pleasure to me is wonderâ€”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. — Diana Gabaldon
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as… — Kim Stanley Robinson
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley

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