Quotes 1 till 20 of 21.
-
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
-
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
-
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
-
But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
In Defense of Women (1918) -
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
-
How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
Pensees (1669) -
I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
-
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
-
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
-
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
-
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
-
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
-
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) -
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
-
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
-
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
All appearances famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
