you can't judge a book by its cover

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Proverb

you can't judge a book by its cover

(idiomatic, figurative) It is not possible to make reliable judgments about things or people by considering external appearances alone.

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it is not possible to judge things by external appearances alone

Arabic: لَا تَحْكُم عَلَى كِتَابِ مِِنْ غِلَافِهِ‎ (lā taḥkum ʕalā kitābi miin ḡilāfihi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人不可貌相 (zh) (bùyào yǐmàoqǔrén)
Danish: sku ikke hunden på hårene
Finnish: ei ole koiraa karvoihin katsominen (fi), moni kakku päältä kaunis (fi)
French: l'habit ne fait pas le moine (fr)
Greek: τα φαινόμενα απατούν (ta fainómena apatoún), το ράσο δεν κάνει τον παπά (to ráso den kánei ton papá)
Hebrew: אַל תִּסְתַּכֵּל בַּקַּנְקַן אֶלָּא בַמֶּה שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ‎ (he) (ál tistakél baqanqán, éla bamé sheyésh bó)
Hindi: जाति ना पूछो साधु की; पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान (jāti nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie gyān)
Hungarian: ne a borító alapján ítéld meg a könyvet
Icelandic: þú getur ekki rannsakað hund eftir hárinu
Irish: go minic bíonn croí geal i gcraiceann donn
Italian: l'abito non fa il monaco, non giudicare un libro dalla copertina, non giudicare dalle apparenze
Japanese: 看板に偽りなし (kanban ni itsuwari nashi)
Lithuanian: nespręsk apie knygą iš viršelio
Norwegian:
Bokmål: man kan ikke dømme boken etter omslaget, man skal aldri skue hunden på hårene (no)
Polish: nie oceniaj książki po okładce
Portuguese: não se pode julgar um livro pela capa
Romanian: nu haina îl face pe om
Russian: не суди́ о кни́ге по обло́жке (ne sudí o kníge po oblóžke)
Scottish Gaelic: 's tric a bhios cridhe gheal ann an seiche dhonn
Serbo-Croatian: ne sudi knjizi po koricama
Slovene: ne sodi knjige po platnicah
Spanish: el hábito no hace al monje
Swedish: man skall inte döma hunden efter håren , man ska inte döma boken efter omslaget
Tagalog: mapanlinlang ang panlabas na anyo
Turkish: hayvanın alacası dışında, insanın alacası içinde
Urdu: ذات نہ پوچھو سادھو کی؛ پوچھ لیجئے علم‎ (zāt nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie ilm)

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