Appearance quotes and words of wisdom |  | "All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that
told." | |  | William Shakespeare
| | | "How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty
judgments upon that which seems." | | | Robert Southey
| | | "If the beard were all, goats could preach." | | | Proverb
| | | "One day in the middle of an important examination in high school,
the point of my lead pencil broke. In those days we used pocket knives to
sharpen our pencils. I had forgotten my penknife and turned to ask a
neighbor for his. The teacher saw this; he accused me of cheating. When I
tried to explain, he gave me a tongue-lashing for lying; worse, he forbade
me to play on the basketball team in the upcoming game. I could see that
the more I protested the angrier he seemed to become. But again and again
I stubbornly told what had happened. Even when the coach pleaded my cause,
the teacher refused to budge. The disgrace was almost more than I could
bear. Then, just minutes before the game, he had a change of heart and I
was permitted to play. But there was no joy in it. We lost the game; and
though that hurt, by far the deeper pain was being branded a cheat and a
liar. Looking back. I know that lesson was God-sent. Character is shaped
in just such crucibles. My parents believed me: they were understanding
and encouraging. Supported by them and a clear conscience, I began to
realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore
human criticism, at least rise above it. And I learned something else -
the importance of avoiding even the appearance of evil. Though I was
innocent, circumstance made me look guilty. Since this could so easily be
true in many of life"s situations, I made a resolution to keep even the
appearance of my actions above question, as far as possible. And it struck
me, too, that if this injustice happened to me, it could happen to others,
and I must not judge their actions simply on appearances." | | | Ezra Taft Benson
| | | "Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve
appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible
freedom!" | | | Ralph Waldo Emerson
| | | "Show me a guy who"s afraid to look bad, and I"ll show you a guy you
can beat every time." | | | Lou Brock
| | | "The appearances of things are deceptive. ?Fallaces sunt rerum
species" | | | Lucius Annaeus Seneca
| | | "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." | | | Webster
| | | "The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that
it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." | | | Daniel Webster
| | | "There is less in this than meets the eye." | | | Tallulah Bankhead
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Interesting Quotes
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby - US comedian & television actor (1937 - )
Where facts are few, experts are many.Donald R. Gannon
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