Brian Herbert Quotes

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

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.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

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

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

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

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Things don't always look as they seem.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

What people believe prevails over the truth.