Quotes About Truth

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It's what I am. And when I'm clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.