A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
Hesketh Pearson

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Jeanne Moreau

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

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Stanislav Grof

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot

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?
Courteney Cox

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.
Gustav Stresemann

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
Larry Norman

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Conrad Veidt

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

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
Gerrit Smith

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
Ryan Phillippe

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

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