Quotes about Superficiality

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality. Votes: 6

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 6

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Votes: 6

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Votes: 6

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. Votes: 6

Live in your roots, not in your branches. Votes: 4

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. Votes: 4

For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life. Votes: 4

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly! Votes: 4

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. Votes: 4

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. Votes: 4

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. Votes: 4

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. Votes: 4

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points. Votes: 4

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me? Votes: 4

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . . Votes: 4

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths. Votes: 4

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace. Votes: 4

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. Votes: 4

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. Votes: 4

there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive. Votes: 4

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else. Votes: 4

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. Votes: 3

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. Votes: 3

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. Votes: 2

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. Votes: 2

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. Votes: 2

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world. Votes: 2

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity. Votes: 2

There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble. Votes: 2

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. Votes: 2

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes. Votes: 1

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality. Votes: 0

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep. Votes: 0

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. Votes: 0

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. Votes: 0

God dwells only in the depths of your heart; he detested the superficial superficiality. Votes: 0

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. Votes: 0

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality. Votes: 0

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. Votes: 0

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. Votes: 0

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment. Votes: 0

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. Votes: 0