First appearances deceive many.
Truth is the skeleton of appearances. [ A. de Musset ]
Appearances deceive
And this one maxim is a standing rule:
Men are not what they seem. [ Havard ]
To let one's self be imposed on by appearances. [ French Proverb ]
The morals of today are made up of appearances. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]
You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. [ Emerson ]
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. [ Ruskin ]
Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]
Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]
Casuists who made absolute chastity a virtue, have produced but false appearances in a hypocritical society. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. [ Emerson ]
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. [ Macchiavelli ]
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]
Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]
Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]