Outward Quotes

521 Outward quotes by 389 unique authors

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments… — William Shakespeare
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. — Edmund Spenser
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and… — Joseph Hall
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a… — Eli Siegel
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind… — Hugh Martin
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the… — Matthew Arnold
Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which… — Baldassare Castiglione
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It… — Harold B. Lee
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. — Joseph Sobran
There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and… — Alphonse de Lamartine
According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to… — Robert Barclay
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes… — Marcus Aurelius
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us. — Honore de Balzac
It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is… — George Muller
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty — Rabindranath Tagore
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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