Superficial Quotes - page 2

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. (Jodi Picoult)
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 arenas where there has been little or no change. View quote
Bell hooks
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. View quote
Ryan Phillippe
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. View quote
Theodore Zeldin
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality. View quote
William Rehnquist
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent. View quote
Jack Vance
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. View quote
Nick Hornby
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth. View quote
Trinny Woodall
The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr). View quote
African Spir
All of us want to be loved with unconditional, eternal love - a love that sees beyond beauty, intelligence, or any other superficial quality. We want to be loved simply because we are. At the same time, we all have a natural, innate tendency to share our love with others. This preoccupation with love arises because in reality we are eternal, loving beings whose souls are filled with knowledge and bliss. In this physical embodiment we are temporarily covered by material energy, but our nature is inherently divine, and we are always seeking the blissful love of the spiritual kingdom where our real fulfillment lies. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do. (Ellen DeGeneres)
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Scientific and technological "solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy. View quote
Leo Strauss
Now those who take a superficial and unreflecting view of things observe the outward appearance of anything they meet, e.g. of a man, and then trouble themselves no more about him. The view they have taken of the bulk of his body is enough to make them think that they know all about him. But the penetrating and scientific mind will not trust to the eyes alone the task of taking the measure of reality; it will not stop at appearances, nor count that which is not seen among unrealities. It inquires into the qualities of the man's soul. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. View quote
Marshall B. Rosenberg
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. View quote
Hesketh Pearson
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. (David LaChapelle)
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. View quote
Andrew Wyeth
People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it. View quote
Ali Hewson
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. View quote
Carl E. Olson