Superficial

Famous quotes containing the word superficial:

    “It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge ever superficial and imperfect.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “Reviews and magazines are at best ephemeral & superficial reading. Who thinks of the grand article of last year in any given review?”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)