The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Good grooming and hygiene are essential. It's never too early to start being concerned about your appearance - first impressions are everything.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

First appearance deceives many.

Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I'm doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won't fall over the edge, but you get excitement.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

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.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance.

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

Appearance rules the world.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.

I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

I spend much of my time in a suit and tie with my top button done up and my sensible shoes neatly polished. When it comes to work, my appearance is about communicating professionalism and confidence.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I always say, I try and be 100 percent myself all the time. So if I'm rejected, it just hurts that little bit less because at least I was myself.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

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.

A campaign adviser can change the outside appearance of the candidate, but the ideology and personality of the candidate remains the same.

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.