Appearance Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.”

— Joseph Bonanno

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

— Ellen Key

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are…

— Richard Dreyfuss

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

— Stephen Marche

“Reality exists as appearances, and appearances are reality known to human beings. You cannot separate appearances from reality, and hold out the latter as…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we…

— Richard Bach

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children…

— Walter Lippmann

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts…

— Dean Koontz

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of…

— Germaine Greer