Quotes About Shallow Men

#1. In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#2. Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

Nikki Sixx

#3. Shallow men believe in luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." Because

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.

John C. Wright

#6. It is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.

Steven Brust

#7. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.

Nikola Tesla

#9. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. Surely guys aren't as shallow as she's implying. If so, I'm embarrassed on behalf of all men.

Colleen Hoover

#11. Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

Peter Dinklage

#13. For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Garrison Keillor

#15. Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Alley Mills

#16. Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

Steve Lillywhite

#17. The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#18. Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.

Tom Leykis

#19. I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

Steven Cojocaru

#20. Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

Karl Shapiro

#21. To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

Erich Fromm

#22. When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Josh Billings

#23. Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

William John Locke

#24. The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

Glenn Gould

#25. I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

Hans Christian Andersen

#26. This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us ... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. We do not talk about wise men or wise ladies any more, she reflected; their place had been taken, it seemed, by all sorts of shallow people - actors and the like - who were only too ready to pronounce on all sorts of subjects.

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

Sharon Gless

#29. The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

William James

#30. The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

#31. Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

Sharon Gless

#33. Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

Andrea Dworkin

#34. The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Hunter S. Thompson

#35. Women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending stream of beautiful women but really, if a charismatic narcissist beautiful bad boy man actually desires us, seems to choose us, we go to pieces.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#36. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Nenia Campbell