The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
The light wave is then reflected off the back of the raindrop's surface and bends as it goes outward at different angles.
Doug Kelly
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those of us who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.
Hermione Gingold
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.
Larry Summers
Europe's distribution market will continue to expand with the increasing sophistication of supply chain management and the outward push of the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
Nigel Rowe
The most likely explanation for this behavior is that a large fraction of the energy of the outward-moving shock wave is going into the acceleration of atomic nuclei to speeds approaching the speed of light.
Jessica Warren
Defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.
Curtis Hanson
This building is just an outward manifestation of the vibrant life within the chapel, ... We want to be a creative, generative ministry of vitality and consequence.
Kerry Robinson
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Jonathan Miller
There's an inherent outward appearance of unfairness and duress when a motorist is forced to plea bargain with the very same officer who stands as his or her accuser. That's the motivation.
Glenn Valle
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
Wendie Malick
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest.
V. S. Naipaul
An explosion in a coal mine has been compared to being in the barrel of a shotgun. It's going to expel outward from where the ignition occurs.
Robert Mcgee
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
She is not fair to outward view / As many maidens be; / Her loveliness I never knew / Until she smiled on me.
Hartley Coleridge
The reason they like them is they are outward forms.
Michael Sullivan
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Stevenson
They paid me for the trip, so I had no outward way to think they were bad people.
Mike Wagers
It helps revitalize that area, and maybe from there, it can expand outward and turn that area around.
Sharon Powers
The distinction is subtle but important. Integration represents an outward conformity; reconciliation represents an inward heart condition.
Garland Hunt
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
Johann G. Seume
Human improvement is from within outward.
James A. Froude
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.
Etty Hillesum
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