Shallow Quotes

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Thomas Carlyle)
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the shallow know themselves. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. View quote
Alexander Pope
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. View quote
Barbara Walters
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. (Oscar Wilde)
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. View quote
Mel Torme
I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow. View quote
Sharon Gless
I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women. View quote
Sharon Gless
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Time is but the stream I go afishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. (Leszek KoĊ‚akowski)
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. View quote
Christopher Reeve
He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. View quote
G. K. Chesterton