Outward Quotes

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

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

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

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 of paths had been cut.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.