APPEARANCES QUOTES II
quotations about appearances
To apply the concept of illusion to all appearances, on the basis that some appearances are illusions, is an unjustified generalization.
AVI SION
Logical Philosophy: A Compendium
Generally we act as if what seems to be, is; our behavior is predicated on that assumption. And that is why life brings continual surprise and disappointment, why we are so often thwarted by the unexpected, and why we so frequently fall into error and confusion. What seems to be -- appearance -- is not reality.
STEPHEN WARDE ANDERSON
Musings and Versings: Essays, Aphorisms and Poems
No disguise here, no sheep's clothing, appearances are what they are--clear.
YURY KAPGAN
"Scalia's Finest Opinion", Weekly Standard, March 10, 2016
Keeping up appearances, living in borrowed finery, wearing masks, the drapery of convention, play-acting for the benefit of others and oneself ... the constant fluttering of human beings around the one flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that there is virtually nothing which defies understanding so much as the fact that an honest and pure drive towards truth should ever have emerged in them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream-images; their eyes merely glide across the surface of things and see 'forms'; nowhere does their perception lead to truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Gay Science
Well I've been keeping up appearances,
But this smile's wearing thin
Let me out, let me out
I think I might drown
I'm suffocating silently in front of the crowd
Let me out, let me out
I can't make a sound
I hate to say it but I think it's over
THE MATERIAL
"Appearances"
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.
DEAN KOONTZ
The Good Guy
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensees
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
EPICTETUS
Discourses
With regard to keeping up appearances it must be remembered that few people can afford to disregard them entirely.
EDWARD JOHN HARDY
How to be Happy Though Married: You are the Society
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
IMMANUEL KANT
Notes and Fragments
Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded ...
WALT WHITMAN
"Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances"
In all things there is reality and there is appearance; they are rarely the same. In the long run reality is more important, of course, but in the short term, appearance, what seems to be and not what is, often counts more.
STEPHEN WARDE ANDERSON
Musings and Versings: Essays, Aphorisms and Poems
Appearances can be deceiving.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Your appearance is more about you taking care of yourself, not your size or your figure. You are gorgeous to him. When he tells you how gorgeous he thinks you are, do not dismiss it -- smile and thank him for the compliment.
RUSSELL C. GAEDE
"4 little things you can do to make your husband have the best day ever", The Oklahoman, December 12, 2015
So often we put off living today. We're so busy keeping up appearances, working for our paycheck, rushing around trying to keep the show on the road if we have a family, cramming everything in, keeping up with our emails, organizing our diaries, rather than doing what we most love to do. Next month when I've finished that assignment, we say, or next year, when I've made enough money, or the year after next when the children have started university, I'll have a bit more time ...
EILEEN CAMPBELL
The Woman's Book of Joy
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
JOHN GREEN
An Abundance of Katherines
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Murder on the Orient Express
To react and to respond only to appearances and to form judgments solely from them is the hallmark of the shallow, superficial, and indolent mind, the sort of mind possessed, unfortunately, by the bulk of humanity.
STEPHEN WARDE ANDERSON
Musings and Versings: Essays, Aphorisms and Poems
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Miserable Mill
Appearances proved nothing and everything.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People