Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.
In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.
Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Even mud gives the illusion of depth.
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
White paint is my marble.
