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

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way everything is interdependent, not absolute.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

First appearance deceives many.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.