Superficial Quotes - Page 3

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

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.

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.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

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

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.