Top 61 Truth Appearance Quotes
#1. Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!
Pope Clement XIII
#2. For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.
Frederick Lenz
#4. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#5. Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
Karl Marx
#6. The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.
Elwin Stark
John Connolly
#7. There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.
John Newton
#10. It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.
Epicurus
#11. The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#12. The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance
Sunday Adelaja
#13. It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.
Emile Chartier
#14. Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
Tacitus
#15. Truth must be stalwart, Loyalty absolute, Generosity unstinting, while Appearance and Convention were children of the giant Hyprocrisy and must be put to flight.
Marilynne Robinson
#16. I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what's really inside.
Carian Cole
#17. What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it.
Victoria Clayton
#18. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
Alberto Caeiro
#19. There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
Walter Raleigh
#21. TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. Neo-Darwinian theory has trouble accounting for the strange, sudden, and belated appearance of man, the conscious self which speaks, lies, deceives itself, and also tells the truth.
Walker Percy
#23. Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.
Mac Barnett
#24. The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not--. There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter's cockiness. This
J.M. Barrie
#25. A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#27. Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.
Julie Garwood
#29. But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.
James Baldwin
#30. I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so people think you're humble because you secretly find yourself adorable. What I saw in the mirror is not apparently what many teenage boys saw.
Carrie Fisher
#31. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette
#32. Difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I
John Steinbeck
#33. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world
Sunday Adelaja
#34. I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
Frances Burney
#35. In politics, appearance matters more than truth.
Robin Hobb
#36. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Moliere
#37. Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.
Torey L. Hayden
#38. I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
David Attenborough
#39. Appearance tyrannizes over truth.
Plato
#40. 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
#41. There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [ ... ] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
Robert Musil
#42. I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
Lydia M. Child
#43. Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Marcus Aurelius
#44. As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.
Marisha Pessl
#45. From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth.
Dean Koontz
#47. Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
Tennessee Williams
#48. The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#49. We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.
Joseph Joubert
#51. It is all too common for people to invest tine into appearance but not in developing their inner man
Sunday Adelaja
#52. People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#53. People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are
Sunday Adelaja
#54. You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body
Sunday Adelaja
#55. VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
Richard Donner
#56. Her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
Janet Fitch
#57. Ah! Yes, the truth, that ingenious concoction of desirability of appearance.
Anatole France
#58. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
#59. 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
#60. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#61. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.
Plato
