Superficial Quotes - Page 2

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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.

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.

I just think that if we stopped playing on the superficial level and concentrated on women in real crises throughout the world, it would be a better thing if we all stood together about the important stuff and stopped getting distracted by superficial things.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

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.

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

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.

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.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.