Top Superficial Quotes
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Stanislav Grof
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant
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.
Judith Wright
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot
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Edgar Allan Poe All Superficial Quotes
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle 
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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Stanislav Grof
63% of people like this quote
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant
61% of people like this quote
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.
Judith Wright
60% of people like this quote
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
Chester Brown
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
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