Jack London Quotes

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

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

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Seeing is not always believing.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Never believe your eyes

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

Things don't always look as they seem.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

Looks can be deceiving.

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

There is no trusting appearances.