Superficial Quotes - Page 14

• A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Prayer, Order, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

  Tom Robbins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Rights

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Simple, Greatness, Expression

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.4

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• Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Agency

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Way, Wikileaks, Kind

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of things are done that couldn't be done before. On the other hand a lot of the effect of social media is to set up extremely superficial contacts amongst people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Acceptance, Doubt

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Lazy, Produce

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• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Mean, Russia

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Men, Would Be

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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• To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare.

  Will Oldham

  Years, Together, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Views, Spirit

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• I just think that if we stopped playing on the superficial level and concentrated on women in real crises throughout the world, it would be a better thing if we all stood together about the important stuff and stopped getting distracted by superficial things.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Thinking, Superficial Things

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Years, Doubt, Video

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I've never been no superficial cat.

  Bernie Mac

  Cat

  "The Mad Man of Comedy", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

  Dorothy West

  Fighting, Desire, Quality

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• I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

  Syesha Mercado

  Superficial Things, Matter, Forget

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Superficial Things, Interesting, Degrees

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• I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

  Anne Frank

  Real, Winning, Feelings

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.172, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Joy, Serious

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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