Beauty Quotes
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.Alexis Carrel
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.Marie Curie
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.Hellen Kelle
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.Louise Bogan
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.Confucius
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.Thomas Tusse
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.George Santayana
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Sir Francis Bacon
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Albert Einstein
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
