Beauty Quotes

Theodore parke - the books that help you most are those which make...
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray - beauty is the wonder of wonders. it is only the...
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
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
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Thomas Jefferson
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Miss Piggy
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
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel
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
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
Unknown
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
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
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
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
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hoope