Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.… — Victor Hugo
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. — Charles Baudelaire
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do… — Andre Gide
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain… — Edward Forbes
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon… — Juan Cole
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe… — Samuel Johnson
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone… — Roger Bacon
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge… — Michael Schudson
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to… — Isaac Asimov
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent… — Thucydides
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as… — Dr. John
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be… — Piers Paul Read
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. — Dmitri Mendeleev
I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and… — Ralph Gibson
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore… — Caroline Glick
We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the… — Nick Cave
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.… — Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

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