If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
J. Donald Walters

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.
Thomas Harrison

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
Karl Radek

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
James M. Baldwin

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Walter Lang

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Hosea Ballou

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
C. L. R. James

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
William Whitelaw

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Thomas Bulfinch

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Francis Wright

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
Kate Millett

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Francis Crick

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
John von Neumann