Beauty Quotes

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Colorose

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

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

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.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

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

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.

Stephen Jay Gould

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hoope

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius