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  • 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. . .

    Knowing   Evil   World  
    J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.86, Springer Science & Business Media
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Order  
  • Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

    Quality   Depth   Culture  
  • I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

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  • 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.

    Years   Silence   Sorrow  
    Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House
  • Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  • Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

    Pain   Failure   Knees  
  • You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

    Men   World   Suits  
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53
  • The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage
  • I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

    Sound   Doe   Helping  
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  • The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

    "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.
  • 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 (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

    Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation
  • It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics
  • Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

    Grandmother   Men   Vices  
  • 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 J. Dyson, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future (2006). “Heretical thoughts about science and society”
  • Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

    Light   Boat   Sail  
    William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus”, p.525
  • Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

    Lying   Men   World  
  • 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.

    Lying   Men   Light  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library
  • A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

    Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

    Sports   Games   People  
  • Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

    Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)”, p.68, jessINK
  • 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.

    Lying   Taken   Character  
    Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1018, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

    Thinking   People   May  
  • What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press
  • The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • 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 Talks THE ROYALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2015.
  • Live in your roots, not in your branches.

    Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media
  • I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

    Women   Believe   Heart  
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