Quotes About Perception

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

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

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

I think there is beauty in everything.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

I understood early that beauty was power.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.