“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
Aristotle
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
Daniel Webster
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin
“O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, When none will sweat but for promotion”
William Shakespeare