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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man. By Epictetus Man Appearance Things Mind Standard

Appearances may be deceiving. By Aesop Appearances Deceiving

Trust not too much to appearances. By Virgil Trust Appearances

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. By Duane Michals Description Things Appearances People

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. By Penelope Lively Life Things Intrigued Physical Appearance

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial. By Cameron Russell Image Powerful Superficial

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. By Niccolo Machiavelli Appearances Realities Great Majority Mankind

Personality can either kill or enhance your appearance. By Mary Mihalic Personality Appearance Kill Enhance

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. By Jean De La Fontaine Good Practical Destructive Love Prove

But appearance and reality were different things, weren't they? By Kate Atkinson Things Appearance Reality

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man. By Robert Bridges Beauty Influences Man Highest Occult

DON'T LET APPEARANCES FOOL YOU By Haruki Murakami Appearances Fool

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons. By Lesley Pearse Beauty Comparisons Illusion Rule

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens. By Dean Koontz Facts Reality Appearances Convincing Alternative

There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators. By Andrew Ross Sorkin Admit Long List Psychology Research

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life. By Henry Cavill Finding Life Physical Aspect Important

It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away. By Wm. Paul Young Simple Appearances Elousia Transcends Appearancethat

The appearance doesn't matter as much as the content. By Katherine Harris Content Appearance Matter

The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease. By Agona Apell Charm Beauty Effects Admiration Beholder

Style is the answer to everything. By Charles Bukowski Style Answer

It is true that the more we see some connection in what happens to us, the more we are confirmed in the opinion we have about the reality of our appearances; and it is also true that the more we examine our appearances closely, the more we find them well-sequenced, as microscopes and other aids in making experiments have shown us. By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz True Appearances Closely Wellsequenced Connection

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness. By Yamamoto Tsunetomo Character Dignity Bespeaks Depth Appearance

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. By Angelica Hopes Appearances Deceiving Remain True Colours

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves. By Roger Scruton Plausibly Beautiful Things Utility

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. By Wolfgang Tillmans Superficial Meaning Eye World Shapes

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible By Elizabeth Brundage Beauty Unseen Invisible Depends Visible

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance. By Os Guinness World Appearance Real Unseen Irrelevant

Because beauty is typically the result of a few qualities working in concert, it can take more to guarantee the appeal of a bridge or a house than strength alone. (p 205) By Alain De Botton Concert Beauty Typically Result Qualities

Expression is the mystery of beauty. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton Expression Beauty Mystery

Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows. By Vicki Pettersson Identity Hide True Shadows Eyes

Beauty alters the grain of reality. By Donna Tartt Beauty Reality Alters Grain

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality. By John Searle Concerned Reality Consciousness Appearance

Style is the image of character. By Edward Gibbon Style Character Image

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. By Nirmala Srivastava Times Truth Display Modern Impresses

There's more to a picture than meets the eye. By Neil Young Eye Picture Meets

Appearance gives rise to interpretation Interpretation gives rise to comparison Comparison gives rise to preference Preference gives rise to disappointment By Ramon Bachty Rise Interpretation Comparison Preference Appearance

There's something about outward appearances that has always been important to me. I always thought I was so ugly. I mean, I really did. I remember being in L.A. at my mom's house as a little kid and just staring into the mirror for hours. It was like, if I looked long enough, maybe I'd finally be handsome. It never worked. I just got uglier and uglier. Nothing about me ever seemed good enough. And there was this sadness inside me - this hopelessness. Focusing on my physical appearance was at least easier than trying to address the internal shit. By Nic Sheff Outward Important Uglier Ugly Thought

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. By Henri Matisse Beauty Dimensions Representation Appearances Balance

How predictable; As if appearance is all that matters for people who can't see with anything other than their eyes. By Donna Lynn Hope Predictable Eyes Appearance Matters People

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. By Sarah Mclachlan Create Interesting Appearance Make Feel

Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression. By Stephanie Ayers Character Impression Defined Visible Shatter

Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves. By Markus Heitz Appearances Creatures Biggest Hearts Reside

In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There's the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there's the kind of looking that's like slurping a Coke. By David Levithan Mind Kind Coke Kinds Respectful

Art is the link between appearance and reality. By Evelyn Underhill Art Reality Link Appearance

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates. By Terrence Howard Presence Important Thing Teach Kids

Their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness By Janet Fitch Form Eager Eyes Unlocking Secrets

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. By Joyce Carol Oates Beauty Optics Question Illusion Sight

It's kinda all about image. By Bam Margera Image Kinda

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me? By Angelina Jolie Industry Superficiality Setting Beautiful Put

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ... By Ada Leverson Modesty Merit Valuable People Appearance

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. By John Lubbock Depends

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics. By Kalle Lasn Aesthetics Powerful Things

People are more than just the way they look. By Madeleine L'engle People

Changing our behavior purely for the sake of appearances may seem to conflict with the need to be authentic and consistent, but in many ways it is actually a result of those needs. After all, resolving the tension between standing out from the crowd and becoming isolated requires finding our niche in the world. But what would happen if we weren't accepted in the place where we felt we belonged? For others to see us as a "poseur" or as "delusional" would be painful. Even worse, what if they were right? The social consequences and self-doubt that follow when our self-perceptions conflict with how others see us can be just as destabilizing to our identity as conflicts between our own self-perceptions and actions. By Sheena Iyengar Changing Consistent Behavior Purely Sake

People tolerate a lot for looks. They tolerate much less for plainness. By Donna Lynn Hope People Tolerate Lot Plainness

Beauty is everything. By Jorja Fox Beauty

Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.) By Peter Kreeft Wisdom Reality Habit Distinguishing Appearance

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you. By Annie Lennox Illusory Appearance People Projecting Understand

Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself. By Plato Prove Happiness Appearance Philosophers Tyrannizes

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. By Duane Michals Photography Appearances Deals Exquisitely

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. By Dries Van Noten Prefer Things Ugly Surprising

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved. By George Bernard Shaw Ostentatiously Whilst Parts Preserved Monstrous

The things that seemto matter less,are the oneswe put on show. By Lang Leav Show Things Seemto Matter Lessare

We understand through resemblance. By Mason Cooley Resemblance Understand

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment. By Leonard Mlodinow Matter Judgment Understand Difficult Ignore

You're a "chibi", and nobody notices you." Halfway good-looking people, according to Ricki, blended into the crowd. They never left any kind of strong impression. They were bland and anonymous. Ugly people, on the other hand, with fleshy noses or thin lips, always attracted attention. By Naomi Hirahara Chibi Ricki People Notices Halfway

Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man. By Arjun Rampal Physical Appealing Attributes Make Appeal

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth ... a unique fashion sense ... In MEN ... a unique nose ... or accents ... By Emmy Rossum Uncommon Women Teeth Things Attractive

Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world By Sunday Adelaja Identifying Outward World Appearance Common

There is an aesthetics in all things. By Herman Melville Things Aesthetics

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence. By Jennifer Hudson Intelligence Real Struggle Accept Appearance

Bring out the eyes. By Vidal Sassoon Bring Eyes

People put too much emphasis on looks. By Shawn Johnson People Put Emphasis

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. By Ambrose Bierce Truth Appearance Ingenious Compound Desirability

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. By Lemony Snicket Counts Inside Heard Appearance Matter

Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances. By Lionel Shriver Hoarders Appearances Guilty Secrets Inevitably

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them. By Laura Riding Appearances Deceive

All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it. By David Cobley Interest Extent Greater Lesser People

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. By Arthur Schopenhauer Mind Physiognomy Style Body Infallible

In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup implied misguided priorities. Like you thought how things looked mattered, instead of how they worked. We liked to look at attractive people. We expected it of our movie stars and TV characters. But we did not respect it. We knew physical attractiveness was inversely correlated with intelligence, because look at us. By Max Barry Sciences Negative Good Implied Wasted

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger. By Dalai Lama Absolute Appearance Interdependent Reality Mind

What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper. By Kristen Callihan Deeper Beauty Ugliness False Front

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight. By Ovid Delight Character Greater

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances By Paul Feyerabend Appearances Harmony

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. By Jean De La Bruyere Modesty Merit Picture Shade Figures

The less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate. By Jessica Livingston Expend Performance Compensate Energy People

Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak. By Georges Bernanos Appearances Feared Weak Dangerous

Trust the perception not the presentation. By Debasish Mridha Trust Presentation Perception

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things. By Alexander Mcqueen Ugly Things Notice People Tend

and personality are entirely By Edward Francis Kelly Personality

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. By Edmund Spenser Beauty Misdeem Fond Men Outward

The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance By Sunday Adelaja Appearance Human Consist

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona. By Marc Anthony God Persona Time Energy Live

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face. By Charles Baudelaire Finally Attire Rumples Garments Rounds

People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. It By Oscar Wilde People Superficial Beauty Thought

The most important thing is presentation. By David Copperfield Presentation Important Thing

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others. By Terry Goodkind Appearance Extension Reflection Person Thought

Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses. By Robert Greene Appearance Judged Unseen Counts Crowd

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility. By Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann Accidental Beauty Deformity Censure Responsibility

order to be seen. By Debbie Macomber Order