Daniel Webster Quotes

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

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

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

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

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

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

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.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Things are not always as they seem.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

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.