Outward Appearance Quotes

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

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Judging People, Long

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• One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Titles, Substance

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• There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Makeup, Personality, Important

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• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Soul, Appearance, Good Work

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• There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

  Amber Benson

  Night, Normalcy, World

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• When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

  Yusuke Kishi

  Influence, Appearance, Mask

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• What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

  Saint Peter

  Beauty, What Matters, Delight

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• In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Personality, Culture

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

  Aesop

  Reality, Mind, Looks

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• I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance.  But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

  Piet Mondrian

  Beautiful, Lying, Flower

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Expression, Appearance

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• We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Reflection, Mature, Appearance

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• All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Would Be, Appearance

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.532, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

  Hilary Swank

  Makeup, Hair, Hot

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• Few see beyond the outward appearance
  And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
  When they do, miracles occur.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Miracle, Soul, Appearance

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• If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Trying, Looks, Pekingese

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

  Hosea Ballou

  Judging, Soul, Quality

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• I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Moral

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Idealism

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

  Judah the Prince

  Wine, Age, May

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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Success, Being Yourself, Secret

  "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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• To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

  Hermione Gingold

  Dog, Loss, Perfect

  Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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• Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Appearance, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.867, Fortress Press

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• A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heaven, Grace, Soul

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