Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Things are not always as they seem.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Seeing is not always believing.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.