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Quotes About Truth

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
~ Unknown
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
~ Guru Nanak
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
~ Julie Burchill
If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
~ David Platt
My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.
~ Megan Fox
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
~ Piet Mondrian
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~ Herbert Gold
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
~ Dorothy West
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
~ Plotinus
The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
~ Said Nursi
Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
~ Edward Burne-Jones
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
~ Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.
~ Unknown
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
~ Gustave Courbet
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
~ Eric Gill
Beauty is a mute deception.
~ Theophrastus
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
~ Eric Gill
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.
~ Henry van de Velde
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.
~ Katherine Center
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
~ Unknown
The truest protest is beauty.
~ Phil Ochs
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.
~ Tom Brokaw