Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Interpretation
Don't judge things by their appearance; rely on facts and evidence instead.
This quote by Charles Dickens emphasizes the importance of looking beyond superficial appearances and assessing situations based on concrete evidence. It suggests that making decisions or forming opinions should be based on facts rather than assumptions or outward looks, which can often be misleading.
In practice
During a presentation on critical thinking, this quote can highlight the importance of relying on data rather than making assumptions.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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