Superficiality Quotes - Page 3

• The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, People, May

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• Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Littles, Mouths

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sports, Games, People

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• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Breathing

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Gaps, Global Warming

  Freeman J. Dyson, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future (2006). “Heretical thoughts about science and society”

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• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Charles R. Swindoll (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

  Stan Getz

  Music, People, Soul

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• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Greatness, Doors, Numbers

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• So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Depends

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Reality, Superficial

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

  Ross Perot

  Pain, Failure, Knees

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• There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

  David F. Wells

  World, Honest, Spirit

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• The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

  Will Durant

  Wedding, Men, Wife

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• Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.

  Ray Brassier

  Philosophy, Youth, Superficial

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Thinking, Practice

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.365

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• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

  George Eliot

  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

  Emily Mortimer

  Sound, Doe, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one!

  Preity Zinta

  Falling In Love, Needs, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Reality, Thinking, Links

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

  Preston Manning

  Matter, Suspicion, Policy

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  Hector Tobar

  Appreciation, Reality, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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