Appearances Quotes

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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. — Isaac Newton
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum. — Jack Nicklaus
'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the… — Susan Orlean
What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be… — Patton Oswalt
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually… — Danica Patrick
My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country. — Minnie Pearl
Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for… — John C. Reilly
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. — John Ruskin
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far… — Isaac Watts
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit,… — James A. Forbes
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. — Colin Powell
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been… — Anchee Min
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the… — Amber Benson
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry

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