Quote by Aesop

Appearances are deceptive.

Appearances are deceptive.

Summary

In this quote, it is suggested that what may initially seem true or accurate based on appearance can often be misleading. It warns against jumping to conclusions or making judgments solely based on external appearances or superficial observations. The quote serves as a reminder to look beyond the surface and investigate further in order to gain a deeper and more accurate understanding of a person, situation, or object. It highlights the importance of critical thinking and the need to avoid making assumptions solely based on appearances, as they can often mislead or deceive us.

Topics

By Aesop

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Mercedes Lackey

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only to

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks f

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I know music is subjective.

I know music is subjective.

I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume und

I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight towering above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment lost myself- actually lost my life. I was set free... dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm and the high dim-starred sky... I belonged within a unity and joy to life itself.