Appearance Quotes

1421 quotes by 1088 authors

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is… — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch.… — Victor Hugo
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not… — Guru Gobind Singh
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. — Claudio Silvestrin
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens. — Walter Lippmann
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence… — Michel de Montaigne
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as… — Marcel Proust
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. — Jean de La Fontaine
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. — Robert Breault
Sometimes I wonder â€” if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? — Robert Breault
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present… — David Whyte
When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance. — Dwight Edwards

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