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Quotes About Perception

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
~ Publilius Syrus
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
~ Jonathan Edwards
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
~ Francine Rivers
Beauty can be seen in all things.
~ Matt Hardy
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
~ Ani DiFranco
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
~ Judith McNaught
You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
~ David Hume
The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
~ Lawrence Halprin
Never once does Snow White herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
~ Lily Collins
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
~ Plotinus
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
~ Richard Gere
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
~ Dorothy Parker
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
~ Anne Michaels
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
~ Naomi Wolf
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
~ Marcel Duchamp
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
~ Tony Kushner
You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .
~ Rumi
When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.
~ Diane Keaton
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
~ John Ruskin
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.
~ Richard Rohr
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
~ Beatrix Potter