Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
Appearance Quotes
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at outward appearance; but the Lord looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat.
Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. (John 7:34)
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.
