Appearance Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Aristotle)
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. View quote
Alice Walker
For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance. View quote
Bridget Riley
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. View quote
Frances Burney
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. (Jean Henri Fabre)
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. View quote
Sid Vicious
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. View quote
Michael Korda
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. View quote
Emil Cioran
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. View quote
Joseph Addison
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. View quote
George Washington
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. (Jane Austen)
There are also half bricks. ...As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls. View quote
Vitruvius
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. View quote
Vitruvius
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things-opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave. View quote
Herbert Marcuse