Outward Quotes

Human improvement is from within outward.

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.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

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.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

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

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

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

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

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.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

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