Quotes · Skopia

29 quotes

John 7:24 · 90

★ 1.2

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Liber Parabolarum · 1202

★ 1.2

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet · 1887

★ 1.2

Letter

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

1908

★ 1.2

Wisdom literature

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned... Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep · 2375 BC

★ 1.9

Lecture · Philosophical literature

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things are either what they appear to be; or they are 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.

Epictetus

Discourses · 108

★ 1.9

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1964

★ 1.9

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

1991

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

The Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

God

1st Samuel 16:7 · 722 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Didactic poem · Philosophical literature

Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things · 55 BC

★ 2.1

Fable and fairy tale

Things are not always what they seem.

Phaedrus

★ 2.1

Novel · Coming of age story

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 2.2

Play · Comedy (play)

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 3.5

Play · Comedy (play)

Ornament is but the guilèd shore To a most dangerous sea.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 3.5

Poem

All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.5

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

1836

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Psychological drama · Comedy drama

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

Christof

The Truman Show · 1998

★ 3.6

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts. This is no ordinary lamp! It once changed the course of a young man's life; a young man who, like this lamp, was more than what he seemed: a diamond in the rough.

The Peddler

Aladdin · 1992

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

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