Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character… — David Mamet
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable… — Immanuel Kant
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is… — Annie Dillard
The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man. — Swami Vivekananda
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.… — Queen Noor of Jordan
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken… — Keith Olbermann
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway. — Gretchen Wilson
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a… — Lawrence Kushner
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led… — Fred Edwords
I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to… — Julian Critchley
My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from… — Antony Flew
The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism… — David Halberstam
In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships). — Yasmin Mogahed
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel… — Eckhart Tolle
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid,… — Mas Oyama

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