Quotes with beauty-truths

Quotes 301 till 320 of 441.

  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Sallust The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • J. C. Hare The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Walter Benjamin The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alexis Carrel The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • George Santayana 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
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bell Hooks The more Lil' Kim distorted her natural beauty to become a cartoonlike caricature of whiteness, the larger her success. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Fran Lebowitz The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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