“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.” ShouldLittlesPersonsTwoProblemYoungDifficultAcceptingYouthOffersSolutionsHarmSuperficialMaximsDifficult ProblemsCredo Author:Bertrand Russell
“Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.” LongStatesUnitedUnited StatesModernYouthRewardsAdministrationOrgansUnfairSuperficialObserversLegislatureFetishSenility Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.” PhilosophyYouthDifficultySuperficialSuperficiality Author:Ray Brassier
“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.” MenCharacterHappensAgeYouthCircumstancesAgingObviousOld AgeCharacteristicsSuperficialObserversNever Change Author:Hesketh Pearson
“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingMayEyeAgeWealthAnswersDealsCryYouthReadyPerceptionComplexesDefinitionsAppearanceVanityBoredomAcquireContradictionAtomsDreadBalancedSuperficialCagesCouchesOutrageResentWearinessBlandGeneralization Author:Peter De Vries