Appearence Quotes

• For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Terrible

• Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Long
  • Women
  • Culture

• Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Outside
  • Fooled
  • Appearence

• My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Jesus
  • Sacrament
  • Contrivance

• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beauty
  • Appearence
  • Creative Mind

• Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Worry
  • Appearence

• I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits).

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Changes
  • Landscape
  • Appearence

• The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Life
  • Creditors
  • Patrons