Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 400 authors

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. — Karen Armstrong
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to… — Douglas Adams
As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy. — Jo Bonner
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions. — Harry Browne
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that… — Dick Cheney
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on… — Norman Podhoretz
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of… — Wendell Willkie
Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with… — Ralph Ellison
Privilege is least apparent to those who have it. — Clarence Page
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their… — John Milton
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away… — P.G. Wodehouse
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit… — Harry Vardon
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,… — Daphne du Maurier
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final… — Mahatma Gandhi
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,… — Charles Spurgeon
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world. — Marc Chagall
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger

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