Apparent Quotes

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. View quote
Herbert Simon
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. View quote
John Updike
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. View quote
Inayat Khan
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. View quote
Helen Rowland
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. View quote
Mark Kingwell
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. (Shia LaBeouf)
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. View quote
Gary North
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. View quote
David Rockefeller
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial...until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world. View quote
Samuel Smiles
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar. View quote
George Henry Lewes
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination. View quote
Patri Friedman
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge. (Roger Bacon)
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am." View quote
W. H. Auden
I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason. View quote
Robert Benchley
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun. View quote
John Dee
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski