Top 697 Superficial Quotes & Sayings

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

I've never been no superficial cat.

At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Superficial goals lead to superficial results

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

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.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

I am deeply superficial.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

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

People are much more important than superficial environments.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency in the biological sciences to label every subdivision of science with a name derived from the Greek. "Ecology" is erudite and profound; while "natural history" is popular and superficial. Though, as far as I can see, both labels apply to just about the same package of goods.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

Liking beauty doesn't mean you're superficial.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.