Superficial Quotes - Page 10

• Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
  But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Travel, Add, Surface

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series”, p.220

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• The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

  Stewart Brand

  Time, Powerful, Stress

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• I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Light, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.263

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• This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

  David Platt

  Inward, Transformation, Follow Me

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.58, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

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• To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

  George Eliot

  Causes, Vanishing, Fit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.182, Penguin

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• Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.

  Chip Ingram

  Couple, Compelling Reason, Depth

  Chip Ingram (2014). “Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God's Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life”, p.75, Baker Books

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• Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?

  Suh Jung

  Fashion, Writing, Men

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• Ask courageous questions.
  Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
  Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
  Be aware of human fallibility.
  Cherish your species and your planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Answers, Courageous, Wonder

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• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

  Hannah More

  Two, Evil, May

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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• Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Spiritual, Ghetto

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• Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Party, Church, Relief

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• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Curiosity

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• We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Soul, Reason, Instinct

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

  Kiana Tom

  Looks, Gym

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• The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

  Leo Bogart

  Ideas, Measurement, Recognition

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

  Shane Leslie

  Should Have, Office, Return

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• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

  Joan D. Chittister

  People, Routine, Asking

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• The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

  Frank Knight

  Truth, Essentials, Problem

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Teacher, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

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• I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

  Holland Taylor

  Character, Play, People

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• 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 in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

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• The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

  E. M. Forster

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Islands

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