Superficial Quotes

Superficial goals lead to superficial results

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.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

I am deeply superficial.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

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

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

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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

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

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.

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

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

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

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

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.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

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

I'm a deeply superficial person.

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

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

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

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

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

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.