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The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are (Superficial Quotes)
Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens (Superficial Quotes)
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 (Superficial Quotes)
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don’t believe there’s any middle ground (Superficial Quotes)
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way (Superficial Quotes)
The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold (Superficial Quotes)
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things... such superficial religion is rampant in the world today (Superficial Quotes)
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love (Superficial Quotes)
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground (Superficial Quotes)
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness (Superficial Quotes)
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt (Superficial Quotes)
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them (Superficial Quotes)
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor (Superficial Quotes)
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic (Superficial Quotes)
... as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings (Superficial Quotes)
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial (Superficial Quotes)
Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet (Superficial Quotes)
I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life (Superficial Quotes)
Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others (Superficial Quotes)
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring (Superficial Quotes)
God’s truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness (Superficial Quotes)
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 (Superficial Quotes)
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view (Superficial Quotes)
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth (Superficial Quotes)
Her natural bent is towards perfection, purification, aesthetics. Her ideal is to remove all the superficial veils until only essence is left (Superficial Quotes)
One’s emotional state is always determined by the oddest and most accidental things, and it is precisely the most superficial factors that often fortify or diminish our courage (Superficial Quotes)
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed (Superficial Quotes)
The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less (Superficial Quotes)
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, but its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things (Superficial Quotes)
As those things which engage us merely by their novelty cannot attach us for any length of time, curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections (Superficial Quotes)