Quotes About Superficial

Beauty's overrated, Sarah.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. 

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Yüzeysel hüzünler, yüzeysel aÅŸklar uzun ömürlüdür. Büyük aÅŸklar, büyük ac?larsa kendi büyüklüklerine kurban olurlar.

fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

The problem gets compounded by what's called the "illusion of explanatory depth," where we feel confidence in our understanding of a complex system, but in reality have just superficial knowledge.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

And Willy Jude was amiable enough, but in about as content-free a way as possible.

everything a little too smooth and glossy.

the part of it of which rationalism can give an account is relatively superficial. It is the part that has the prestige undoubtedly, for it has the loquacity, it can challenge you for proofs, and chop logic, and put you down with words. But it will fail to convince or convert you all the same, if your dumb intuitions are opposed to its conclusions.

A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand anything about me.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

6) The understanding that philosophers have of man is superficial: they are not able to fathom his depths, his despair, what is hidden in his craving for distraction and in the mood of boredom, which discloses more of man's reality than all his rational activities.

Matter and mind have this in common, that certain superficial agitations of matter are expressed in our minds, superficially, in the form of sensations; and on the other hand, the mind, in order to act upon the body, must descend little by little toward matter and become spatialized. It follows that the intelligence, although turned toward external things, can still be exerted on things internal, provided that it does not claim to plunge too deeply.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

It was nothing, it was business but it left an ugly mark.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.