#shallow

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#becomes #eats #fly #intellect #mind

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #bottom #considered #deep #discover

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#into #knowledge #lover #reluctant #shallow

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #shallow

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#age #around #become #before #churchill

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

#shallow-beauty #beauty

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#cartoons #humor #preaching #shallow #shallowness

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eternity #shallow #silence #speech #time

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived! ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#empathy #modern-society #progress #shallowness #technology