Judith Wright
Poet
"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."
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Superficial
64 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"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."
Ava Gardner
Actress
"I am deeply superficial."
Ava Gardner
Actress
"Deep down, I'm pretty superficial."
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"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
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"When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone"
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"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."
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"When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial."
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"How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives."
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"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial."
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"Image is powerful. But image is also superficial."
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"It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship."
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"Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress."
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"I'm a deeply superficial person."
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"Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular."
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"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers."
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"The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me."
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"Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind."
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"Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble."
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"L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial."
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"Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers."
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"Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial."
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"If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?"
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"What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all."
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