Superficially Quotes
42 quotes by 39 authors
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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such…
— Jean M. Auel
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If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing…
— Niles Eldredge
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You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most…
— Albert Schweitzer
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There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
— Grant-Lee Phillips
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
— Richard Ford
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At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially…
— Criss Jami
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Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
— James Bryant Conant
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
— Francis Bacon
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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
— Baroness Orczy
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He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to…
— Edith Wharton
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I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what…
— Franz Kafka
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Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by…
— Henry B. Eyring
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What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
— Cillian Murphy
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Unfortunately, we often love others only superficially that is, we talk love, but don't live love
— Craig Williams
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Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal…
— Chris A Bridges
Who Wrote These Superficially Quotes
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