Appearance Quotes

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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged… — Benjamin Franklin
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a… — Jonathan Swift
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. — Lord Chesterfield
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you… — Emile M. Cioran
It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality,… — Che Guevara
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning — Carl Menger
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young
We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits,… — Jose Mujica
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life… — Thomas a Kempis
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not… — Shelby Steele
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing… — Mother Teresa
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the… — Mother Teresa
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances… — William James
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so… — Anandamayi Ma
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a… — Robert South
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot… — Ernest Hemingway
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus

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