“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”

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American writer of fantasy novels for children 1954

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

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Beck (1970) American Musician (b.1970)

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“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible….”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

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“There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

Preface, p. 16 (Corrected Edition)
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“I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

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“Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Associated Press luncheon http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html#censorship (24 April 1950), New York City, New York <br class="br">1950s <br class="br">Context: Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem. Though sometimes necessary, as witness a professional and technical secret that may have a bearing upon the welfare and very safety of this country, we should be very careful in the way we apply it, because in censorship always lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation.

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

Oscar Wilde book Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)