Quotes About False Appearances

#1. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Horace

#4. What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances - of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes

#7. My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Tupper

#8. Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,
let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

Toba Beta

#9. It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

#10. The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Donald Miller

#11. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Sun Tzu

#12. I don't like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn't choose to tell them.

Ann Aguirre

#13. The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

Enya

#14. When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

James A. Forbes

#15. Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.

Stephen R. Covey