Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 300 authors

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as… — Isaac Asimov
Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of… — Matt Chandler
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that… — Immanuel Kant
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify theÂ motives, and purify theÂ heart. — William Wilberforce
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And… — Stewart Brand
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. — Carl E. Olson
The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities, they… — Laozi
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He… — Edmund Burke
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. — David Platt
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. — David Platt
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. — Salvador Dali
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in… — Stephen Covey
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and… — Madeleine Vionnet
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the… — Henry James Sumner Maine
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a… — Jack Donovan
How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives. — Pope Francis
Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of… — Chip Ingram

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