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Quotes About Beauty

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?
~ Ken Wilber
Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.
~ Lorrie Moore
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
~ Mark Forsyth
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
~ Mason Cooley
I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.
~ Michael Glawogger
It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.
~ Mischa Barton
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.
~ Mortimer Adler
Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
~ Neill F. Marriott
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
~ Paul Krugman
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.
~ Pope Francis
Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.
~ Pope Francis
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
~ Octave Feuillet
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.
~ Reif Larsen
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
~ Richard B. Garnett
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.
~ Robert Williams Buchanan
The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
~ Salma Hayek
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Poets find truth by writing about what they love.
~ Susan Cooper