Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 300 authors

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. — Alice Hegan Rice
When we are angry, killing people is too superficial. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves… — Auguste Rodin
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look… — Jay Maisel
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play… — Franz Kafka
A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its… — Eckhart Tolle
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't… — Nick Hornby
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural. — Leonard Ravenhill
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground. — Leonard Ravenhill
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. — Cornel West
If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you… — Larry Brilliant
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me… — Heinz Kohut
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. — David LaChapelle
The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a… — Albert J. Nock
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about manâ€™s pastâ€¦the past shows clearly that we all have a… — Louis Leakey
How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives. — Cameron Russell

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