Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 300 authors

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around… — Lucinda Creighton
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in… — Pope Benedict XVI
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life,… — Rajneesh
Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach… — Rajneesh
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the… — May Sarton
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. — Oscar Wilde
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases. — Larry Rivers
I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a… — Natalie Portman
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess… — Ryan Phillippe
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we… — Bruce Lee
Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only… — Rupert Everett
I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at… — Joan Lunden

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