Appearance Quotes

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

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.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

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

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

Personality affects appearance, so I always think positively.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

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

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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

Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

All that glisters is not gold.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Things are seldom what they seem.

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

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

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

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.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.