Appearance Quote by Laurence Sterne

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

— Maya Angelou

“We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because it's the…

— Melanie Joy

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since…

— Marshall McLuhan

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

— Quintilian

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“[..] the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including,…

— Michael Pollan

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

— Dean Koontz

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

— John Piper

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial…

— Dalai Lama

“Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all…

— Kouhei Kadono