Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

The reason that this is even a subject is because Hillary Clinton has made it one. She's the one focusing on her appearance, her personality, and all these sorts of things. If she's going to do that, I, ladies and gentlemen, am going to ask the question.

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

There is no trusting appearances.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

Things are seldom what they seem.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family... instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance, it is better to see him in everything.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.