Appearance Quotes
1421 quotes by 1088 authors
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But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending…
— Diane Kruger
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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does…
— Andre Weil
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of…
— Charles Babbage
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack…
— Florence Nightingale
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
— William Whewell
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages…
— Jacob Bronowski
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For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the…
— Francis of Assisi
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
— Duane Michals
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is…
— Mark Twain
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
— Oscar Wilde
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their…
— Hugh Nibley
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he…
— Hermione Gingold
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
— Samuel Johnson
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the…
— Alexander Fleming
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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
— Samuel Johnson
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical…
— David Lack
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