Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that…

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

— Rumi

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

— Joan Didion

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more…

— Erin McKean

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction…

— Margaret Benson

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect…

— Ai Weiwei

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in…

— Max Heindel

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly…

— Wendell Willkie

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

— Archie Moore

“She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore…

— Lao Tzu

“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.”

— Piers Anthony

“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus…

— Roger Scruton

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest…

— Diplo