Superficial Quotes

357 Superficial quotes by 300 unique authors

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false… — Neil Postman
The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow… — Rolf Potts
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. — Jodi Picoult
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are. — Shulamith Firestone
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin
Iâ€™m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! -… — Grant Morrison
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind… — Haruki Murakami
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficialâ€”I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque
I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I… — Henri Nouwen
It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didnâ€™t… — Francis Chan
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. — Antonio Porchia
The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how… — Francis Frangipane
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty… — Oscar Wilde
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in… — Bell Hooks
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man… — Edgar Allan Poe

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