Shallow Thinking Quotes

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.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

… too much of a talker to be a deep thinker

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

It's kind of disappointing and disgusting in a way, how some people are focusing on how we look.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

[Characterizing Richard M. Nixon:] ... not a man of quality and depth.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

We have young men with shoes which light up when they walk and a brain that seems dead when they talk.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

The man [President Woodrow Wilson] has no sense of things that penetrates below the surface. With him the rhetoric of a thing is the thing itself.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Donald Trump. Can't spell, can't read, has never managed anything approaching an original thought. His brain is like a radio playing at top volume, but between stations.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.