Top 82 Quotes About Superficiality
#1. Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. 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.
Freeman Dyson
#3. The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.
Kyan Douglas
#4. For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
#5. 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.
Tim Macartney-Snape
#6. You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler
#7. I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
Gwendoline Christie
#8. Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
Matthew Kelly
#9. The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.
Dannah Gresh
#10. Frustrated by the superficiality of dining-hall conversation,
Susan Cain
#11. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles R. Swindoll
#12. I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
Patricia Marx
#13. Narcissism is very much a "disorder of superficiality." Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors - work, school, parenting, and love - the narcissists' propensity toward superficiality no longer seems that unusual.
Ramani Durvasula
#14. Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
Harlan Coben
#15. The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.
Bruce Lee
#16. Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.
Odd Nerdrum
#17. 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 ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#18. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#19. Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
Emil M. Cioran
#20. Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
Richard J. Foster
#21. The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
Chaim Potok
#22. 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.
Paulo Coelho
#23. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.
Kato Lomb
#24. 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.
Radhanath Swami
#25. The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
Henry Mintzberg
#26. 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.
Penn Badgley
#27. We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there's a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.
Kamila Shamsie
#28. 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.
Elizabeth Prioleau
#29. 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.
Lewis Carroll
#30. 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.
Richard Rohr
#31. The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
#32. 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.
Preston Manning
#33. Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.
Francine Prose
#34. 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.
Amanda Eliasch
#35. 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.
William Moseley
#36. 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.
Jeanloup Sieff
#37. Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Stephen Fry
#38. Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#39. I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
Elena Ferrante
#40. The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
Anthony Daniels
#41. The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as the century of superficiality.
Billy Graham
#42. Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Joyce Carol Oates
#43. 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.
Azar Nafisi
#45. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. 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?
Angelina Jolie
#47. Superficiality," said Richard Foster, "is the curse of our age." The desperate need of the soul is not for intelligence, nor talent, nor yet excitement; just depth.
John Ortberg
#48. 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.
Erich Maria Remarque
#49. 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.
Criss Jami
#51. Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace.
John Stott
#52. 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.
Barry Diller
#53. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. [A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.
Robert Charles Wilson
#55. I just can't wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I've been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.
Francine Pascal
#57. Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
Johnny Rich
#58. It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul ...
John Geddes
#59. Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
Idries Shah
#60. Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.
Ulysses Brave
#61. If I must choose, I'd rather be tuned in than 'turnt up'.
T.F. Hodge
#62. She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.
Jack London
#63. What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?
Tyler Knight
#64. Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.
Suzy Kassem
#66. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Bertrand Russell
#67. Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.
Jack London
#68. Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?"
"Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take her shirt off. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone.
John Green
#69. So now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green ...
John Geddes
#70. You must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved ...
John Geddes
#71. When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
Antonio Porchia
#72. Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you
and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.
Liz Kessler
#73. I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.
Douglas Pagels
#74. To my own demise, I rarely ask why I'm hungry because I'm focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries Shah
#77. The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
Ashly Lorenzana
#78. Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing
Edith Wharton
#79. Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.
Grant McLachlan
#80. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
Nenia Campbell
#81. Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.
Francine Pascal
#82. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Harper Lee
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