Quotes of Shallow - somelinesforyou

“ Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Time is but the stream I go fishing 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. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ 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. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. ”

- W. Secker

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world. ”

- Wilford O. Cross

“ Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ”

- Robert Greene

“ Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ”

- Mathew Henry

“ A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Only the shallow know themselves. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Unknown

“ Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don't be so shallow. ”

- En Vogue

“ It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. ”

- Christopher Reeve

“ Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. ”

- John Milton

“ Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. ”

- Walter Benjamin
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