Superficial quotes
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To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Never lose your sense of the superficial.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
-- Alvin Plantinga -
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
-- Ansel Adams -
Superficial goals lead to superficial results
-- Attila the Hun -
I am deeply superficial.
-- Ava Gardner -
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
-- Ava Gardner -
Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.
-- Cameron Russell -
How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.
-- Cameron Russell -
Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
-- Carl Sagan -
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The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
-- Colin Quinn -
Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.
-- Diane Kruger -
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
-- Epictetus -
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
-- Eric Ries -
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
-- George Eliot -
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
-- Hans Hofmann -
To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.
-- Heather Mills -
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
-- Judith Wright -
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It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.
-- Kiana Tom -
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
-- Larry Brilliant -
I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
-- Larry Rivers -
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney -
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It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?
-- Mark Addy -
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 -
In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.
-- Milarepa -
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
-- P. D. James -
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How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.
-- Pope Francis -
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
-- Shulamith Firestone -
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
-- Stanislav Grof -
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.
-- Stephen Batchelor -
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L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.
-- Verne Troyer -
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
-- William Rehnquist -
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
-- William S. Burroughs -
You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.
-- Ian Kelsey -
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Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.
-- Ishmael Butler -
It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
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 -
I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.
-- Heidi Montag -
