Quotes About Shallowness

It sounded very shallow put that way. Did it matter? Sometimes the human spirit needed the shallows. Sunshine danced on the shallows but was absorbed beyond trace by the depths.

She's about as deep as an Arizona mud puddle.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter

Satan is the illusive manipulator. He prances and dances and drinks in the adulation of his worshippers as he glimmers and shimmers, displaying all that glitters and all that attracts the shallowness of man.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

And soon all our minds will be flat as a pancake, With no room for genius exaltation or heartache. And our children and theirs will preen, smirk and chatter, With not even the sense to ask what is the matter.

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.

inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Some folks can't see no higher than the steam from their own pot of stew.

the affectivity of the extraverted woman possesses a certain lability and shallowness because it is adapted to the ordinary life of human society.

It's as if our species has evolved into one that flourishes in depth and wallows in shallowness, becoming what we might call Homo sapiens deepensis.

Roosevelt had witnessed this low threshold for discomfort in some of his closest friends, and he believed that it showed a shallowness of character that he was determined never to see in his own children.

Dogmatism is thus the dogmatic procedure of pure reason without previous criticism of its own powers, and in opposing this procedure, we must not be supposed to lend any countenance to that loquacious shallowness which arrogates to itself the name of popularity, nor

complication without depth

Despite his title, the Secretary of the Interior was a shallow man. He was given to surfaces, not depths; to cortex, not medulla; to the puff, not the cream. He didn't understand the interior of anything: not the interior of a tenor sax solo, a painting or a poem; not the interior of an atom, a planet, a spider or his wife's body; not the interior, least of all, of his own heart and head.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

People are shallow things. If anyone has even a bit more than they do, they're jealous, and if one has less, they look down on her.

Deep down I'm really shallow.

They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.

There is less in this than meets the eye.