Below The Surface Quotes

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

  Howard Zinn

  Memories, Taken, People

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.395, Pan Macmillan

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• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

  James Bryant Conant

  Irritated, Behavior, Surface

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• Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Thinking, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1892). “St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays”

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• If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

  Alvin Rosenfeld

  Inspirational, Courage, Children

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Average, Voice

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• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Fighting, Superstitions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Reality, Organization

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• Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Philosophy, Asking Questions

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.18, Bertrand Russell

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• Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Husband, Army, Self

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.238, Vintage

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• The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

  Richard Greenberg

  Ocean, Way, Biosphere

  "A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2002.

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• It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

  Peter Buffett

  People, Kind, Behavior

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Profound, Depth

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• My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

  Richard Avedon

  Reading, Ideas, Excellence

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.

  Jon Bowermaster

  Ocean, Ecosystems, People

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• A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

  Dolly Parton

  Tree, Survival, Surface

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• Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Lying, Character, Men

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• Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Effort, Acting

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

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• All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Media, Different, Our Words

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Law, Subtle

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.

  David McCullough

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: belmontvision.com

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