Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 300 authors

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. — Carl Sagan
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of… — Russell Brand
The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes… — Shakti Gawain
Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is… — William Lane Craig
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate… — Robin Boyd
The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him. — Charles Spurgeon
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it… — Pope Francis
In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial. — Milarepa
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of Godâ€™s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Image is powerful. But image is also superficial. — Cameron Russell
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I… — Amber Heard
I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial. — Colin Quinn
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are… — Laurie Garrett
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all… — Irving Kaufman
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning… — Marston Bates

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