Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 300 authors

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. — Emile M. Cioran
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it… — Lee Strobel
I donâ€™t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a gluttonâ€”â€‹for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic… — Flannery O'Connor
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. — Marshall McLuhan
People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean,… — Frank Miller
I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they… — Larry Norman
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small. — Larry Brilliant
On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone… — Melissa Etheridge
Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. — P.D. James
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternativeâ€”guidelines that are not based on superficial… — Ori Hofmekler
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It… — Thomas Merton
Never lose your sense of the superficial. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its… — Margaret Fuller
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of… — Duane Michals

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