Jean Paul Quotes

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Beauty is only skin deep.

We often judge people by their cars and the money they have... Sometimes worth is decided based on outer appearances and that's sad.

Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

...the heart is an organ of fire.

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Things are not what they seem.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.