Superficial Quotes

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

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

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

I've never been no superficial cat.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

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

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

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

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.