Quotes About Outward Appearance

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

Aristotle.

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

Piet Mondrian

#3. Jung was very conscious of the mysteriousness of the human personality and the difficulty of penetrating the outward appearance and discovering the real individual.

Christopher Bryant

#4. But the Lord draws near to Samuel: The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

Ann Voskamp

#5. It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Mark Twain

#6. The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#7. It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered,

Jeannette Walls

#8. Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Robert Galbraith

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

Thomas S. Monson

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

Jean De La Fontaine

#11. This is how God sees you when you turn to Him. When you accept the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, you are cleansed, purified. You become His beautiful princess. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

MaryLu Tyndall

#12. She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.

Steve Toltz

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

Saint Peter

#14. Attractive souls are different than beautiful souls. Attractive souls take care of their outward appearance for appearance sake. Beautiful souls care for themselves inwardly and outwardly, so they can be of value to themselves and to others.

Toni Sorenson

#15. The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. ( ... ) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

Nora Roberts

#16. For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Gong Li

#17. I have already given some account of the Steppenwolf's outward appearance. He gave at the very first glance the impression of a significant, an uncommon, and unusually gifted man. His

Hermann Hesse

#18. By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

Muhammad Asad

#19. But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.

Bible

#20. When you meet someone, remember their outward appearance can be completely different from their insides. Be gentle.

Anne Bardsley

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. - St. Ignatius Loyola

James Martin

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Clement Of Alexandria

#26. 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

#27. Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Vicki Courtney

#28. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#29. 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

#30. You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

Neil Gaiman

#31. While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

Jordan Dane

#33. Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

Helen Fielding

#34. Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg

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

Yusuke Kishi

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

Karl Marx

#37. Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#38. Do not look on [her] appearance or on the height of [her] stature, because I have rejected [her]; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7

Anonymous

#39. And yet he had learned to submerge that sense of horror, to disregard the outward appearance of it, to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

Clifford D. Simak

#40. If you understand that you are not just your appearance or your physical body, you will be better equipped to handle negative feelings or imperfection regarding your outward appearance

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.

Stephen Richards

#42. Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Kobo Abe

#43. Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism ...

Samuel Butler

#44. Mankind looks on the outward appearance, the Lord looks at the heart." 2Samuel 6:7 Holy Bible.

Anne B. Caluwaert

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

Aesop

#46. Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, c but the LORD looks on the heart.

Anonymous

#47. You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#48. I have met many people in my life who I consider beautiful. Not because of their outward appearance, but because of their hearts.

Monica Douglas Davis

#49. Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Juvenal

#50. For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Marcus Aurelius

#51. 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

#52. All is not golde that outward shewith bright.

John Lydgate

#53. I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

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