Shallow Quotes

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Life, Ocean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, World, Demand

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Life, Wisdom, Future

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Shallow men believe in luck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Gambling

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Powerful, Ideas

  "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity". Book by David Lynch, December 27, 2007.

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• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Belief, Seriousness

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.18, New Line Publishing

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• Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Sadness, Mean

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• Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Giving, Our Society

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others

  Tariq Ramadan

  Profound, Be Good, Strict

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• I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

  Erich Fromm

  Husband, People, Wife

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Loss, Florida

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 27, 2012

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  Imelda Marcos

  Country, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

  Guru Nanak

  Sweet, Mind, Intellect

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• To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

  Michael Bassey

  Quality, Negative Influence, Excuse

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• There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Destiny, Feelings, Far Away

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.23, Random House

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• There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Shallow Person, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

  David Hume

  Fall, Class, Two

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Too Much, Arguing

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• I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

  Dolly Parton

  Shallow Person, Trying, Want

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

  Dennis Lehane

  Vanity, Self, Weakness

  "A Drink Before the War". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 1994.

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