Appear Quotes

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak. (Albert Einstein)
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. View quote
Quintilian
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. View quote
Isaac Newton
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. View quote
Gore Vidal
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. View quote
Mark Twain
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. View quote
William Blake
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. (Montesquieu)
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. View quote
Joseph Addison
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. View quote
Leonhard Euler
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. View quote
Tennessee Williams
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. View quote
George Boole
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail, none of which is easy ! View quote
Anne, Princess Royal
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. View quote
Paul Ricœur
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. View quote
Alice Walker
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. (George Santayana)
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. View quote
Nat Turner
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. View quote
Nigel Lawson
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. View quote
Karl Kraus
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin