Things Are Not What They Appear To Be Quotes

#1. Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

Gautama Buddha

#2. The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

#3. I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

L. Frank Baum

#4. Some things are not always what they appear to be.
Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see.

Laqueisha Malone

#5. What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge

#6. Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. - Epictetus

Karen Marie Moning

#7. I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.

Diane Schoemperlen

#8. I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

Corey Smith

#9. Okay. Not gay. Not lovers, they both just appear to like donuts more than your average bear.

Jandy Nelson

#10. Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Richard E. Grant

#11. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Dante Alighieri

#13. Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear.

Me

#14. And over my head," relates Squire Haligast, "it form'd an E-clipse, an emptiness in the Sky, with a Cloud-shap'd Line drawn all about it, wherein words might appear, and it read, - 'No King . . .

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

#16. In reality, Eduardo hoped the mask would make him appear vulnerable and self conscious, like a wounded animal these stupid women would fight each other over to mend.

Raquel Cepeda

#17. the BIG issue nowadays is that on TV and in magazines, the images we see, while they appear surreal, "really aren't surrealistic, because they're just random, and there's no subconsciousness underneath to generate the images.

Douglas Coupland

#18. The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

Gregg Braden