Quotes with appearance

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  • Alice Walker People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Lamb The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Michael Korda The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bobbi Brown The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Adele The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Fran Lebowitz The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jessamyn West The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Albert Einstein There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Plato Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Thomas J. Watson THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Henry Fielding We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
    Joseph Andrews preface
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Aesop We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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