Superficial Quotes

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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. — Jane Jacobs
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time,… — Karolina Kurkova
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent,… — Jay McInerney
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or… — Chester Brown
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal… — Deepak Chopra
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact… — Joel Garreau
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be… — Timothy Keller
I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept… — Gustav Stresemann
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that… — Manuel Puig
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as… — Norman Cousins
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things… — Jean-Georges Noverre
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. — Daniel Kahneman
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great… — Pope Francis
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously… — Gerrit Smith
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If… — E F Schumacher

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