Appearance Is Not Reality Quotes

#1. Bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health.

Susan Cain

#2. So, at any rate, it appears. But appearance is not reality.

Gordon Graham

#3. Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)

Peter Kreeft

#4. The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

Hans Hofmann

#5. do not fear the tanker but the fuel that is in the tanker

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

#8. In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

Herbert Marcuse

#9. Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Friedrich Schiller

#10. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. But appearance and reality were different things, weren't they?

Kate Atkinson

#12. How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

Agatha Christie

#13. I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Larry Bishop

#14. Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

Max Ernst

#15. The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Kahlil Gibran

#16. So when the big companies come in they buy the name of the company, they pay for the funeral directors to stay on, they create the appearance of diversity. But that is merely the tip of the gravestone. In reality, they are as local as Burger King.

Neil Gaiman

#17. In Washington ... the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Henry Kissinger

#18. Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthly appearance of, two unimaginable, supercosmic, eternal somethings.

C.S. Lewis

#19. There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Louis L'Amour

#20. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

Adolf Loos

#21. His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade

Justin Bienvenue

#22. In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

Steven Saylor

#23. Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

Oswald Chambers

#24. Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

Brian Herbert

#25. Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#26. 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.

Dalai Lama

#27. One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Jeffrey Brown

#28. You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

William Morris Hunt

#29. If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

Aleatha Romig

#30. All hat, no cattle ... doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

Lisa Kleypas

#31. It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

#32. There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Dada Vaswani

#33. All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

Immanuel Kant

#34. If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

Meister Eckhart

#35. As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him ... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

Louis Aragon

#36. The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

Vilfredo Pareto

#37. There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.

Jorge M. Perez

#38. Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Murasaki Shikibu

#39. The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Joseph Conrad

#40. He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.

Aporva Kala

#41. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#42. Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Emile M. Cioran

#43. Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

John Searle

#44. Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

William Shakespeare

#45. Deny that lack has any place or reality in your
thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only
appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little,
and insist that it is constantly growing larger.

Charles Fillmore

#46. Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

Sigfried Giedion

#47. When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#48. The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#49. Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

Dion Fortune

#50. Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#51. Man is an appearance, God is a reality.

Kedar Joshi

#52. Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Edward Abbey