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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. -- George Santayana
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. -- Faith Baldwin
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. -- Jerry Garcia
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. -- Umberto Eco
I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. -- Kim Gordon
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views. -- Peter York
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'. -- Will Self
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius. -- George Edward Woodberry
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.' -- Robert M. Gates
Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi. -- Cornelia Funke
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. -- Carl Sagan
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. -- Allan Bloom
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter -- Tacitus
Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it -- Seneca
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death. -- Barbara Tuchman
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace. -- Georges Clemenceau
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. -- Emile Zola
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. -- Don DeLillo
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.] -- Juvenal
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it. -- George Gaylord Simpson
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. -- Charles Duhigg
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. -- Virginia Woolf
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] -- Martial
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone. -- Ming-Dao Deng
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself. -- Christian Nestell Bovee

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