Beauty Quotes
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
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1
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
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.Helen Rowland
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
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.John F. Kennedy
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust, The War with Catiline
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
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
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
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
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
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.Rune Leknes
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
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.
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
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
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
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
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.Native American Prove
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
