Thomas Carlyle Quotes

First appearance deceives many.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Looks can be deceiving.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Appearances are often deceiving.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.