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"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte." »Plato
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." »Bertrand Russell
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"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." »Maya Angelou
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." »John Donne
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"We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." »Robert Frost
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"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
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"There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." »Elie Wiesel
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"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know." »John Keats
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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 Proverb
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"She is a peacock in everything but beauty." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." »Confucius
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"beauty is in the eye of the beholder." »Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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"beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know." »John Keats, -
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." »Confucius
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"When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less." »Prophet Mohammed
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"As we grow old…the beauty steals inward." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven." »Osho
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"She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth." »Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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"Modesty is the citadel of beauty." »Demades
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"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it." »Christian Nestell
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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." »Anne Frank
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"beauty is the purgation of superfluities." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark." »Ovid
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"Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty." »Rose Elizabeth Bird
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