Superficial Quotes
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
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.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
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.
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one!
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
