Quotes About Perception

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

The biggest thing for women to keep in mind is you can't ever let someone define beauty for you. Look in the mirror and say that this is my definition of perfection.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?