Appearance Quotes

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

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.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

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.

Your worth is not determined by your appearance, and your worth is not determined by what others think of you. I know those are easy words to say, and hard to feel. I am still working on this myself. But I am here working on it alongside you.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

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.

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.

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

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

Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

God loveth the clean.

Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

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.

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

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

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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

Things are seldom what they seem.

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.

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.