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.
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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. ]
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.
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'.
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?
The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian. " Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
