Quotes about Truth and Beauty

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Votes: 8

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. Votes: 8

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty Votes: 7

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Votes: 6

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. Votes: 6

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. Votes: 6

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long. Votes: 6

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Votes: 6

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Votes: 6

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me. Votes: 6

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Votes: 6

I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality. Votes: 6

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary. Votes: 6

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place. Votes: 6

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light. Votes: 6

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. Votes: 5

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first Votes: 4

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Votes: 4

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. Votes: 4

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. Votes: 4

Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty. Votes: 4

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. Votes: 4

My responsibility is to truth and beauty. Votes: 3

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. Votes: 3

A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. Votes: 3

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do Votes: 3

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. Votes: 3

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined." Votes: 3

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Votes: 3

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others? Votes: 3

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life. Votes: 3

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.) Votes: 3

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Votes: 2

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. Votes: 2

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that. Votes: 2

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Votes: 2

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it. Votes: 2

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. Votes: 2

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Votes: 2

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. Votes: 2

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Votes: 2

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Votes: 2

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Votes: 2

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. Votes: 2

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. Votes: 2

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. Votes: 2

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Votes: 2

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Votes: 2

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. Votes: 2

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer. Votes: 1

Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family. Votes: 1

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. Votes: 1

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. Votes: 1

Truth is beauty Votes: 0

Beauty is truth, truth beauty Votes: 0

Truth reveals itself in beauty. Votes: 0

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. Votes: 0

Lying - remembering beauty in truth. Votes: 0

Beauty is the brilliance of truth. Votes: 0

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. Votes: 0

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade. Votes: 0

The beauty of truth is in its simplicity. Votes: 0

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule. Votes: 0

Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost. Votes: 0

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. Votes: 0

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty. Votes: 0

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long... Votes: 0

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. Votes: 0

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself. Votes: 0

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Votes: 0

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. Votes: 0

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. Votes: 0

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. Votes: 0

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. Votes: 0

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. Votes: 0

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness. Votes: 0

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things. Votes: 0

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. Votes: 0

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. Votes: 0

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants. Votes: 0

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty. Votes: 0

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought. Votes: 0

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Votes: 0

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself. Votes: 0

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty. Votes: 0

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity. Votes: 0

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. Votes: 0

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. Votes: 0

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. Votes: 0

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All Votes: 0

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Votes: 0

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Votes: 0

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. Votes: 0

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. Votes: 0

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating. Votes: 0

Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself. Votes: 0

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0

... the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.... Votes: 0

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. Votes: 0

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her. Votes: 0

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine Votes: 0

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. Votes: 0

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Votes: 0

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. Votes: 0

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled. Votes: 0

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Votes: 0

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. Votes: 0

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip. Votes: 0

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. Votes: 0

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. Votes: 0

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. Votes: 0

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. Votes: 0

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. Votes: 0

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not Votes: 0

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. Votes: 0

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done? Votes: 0

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty. Votes: 0

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty Votes: 0

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. Votes: 0

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth... Votes: 0

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. Votes: 0

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. Votes: 0

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. Votes: 0

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Votes: 0

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth. Votes: 0

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Votes: 0

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. Votes: 0

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye. Votes: 0

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Votes: 0

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. Votes: 0

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth. Votes: 0

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God. Votes: 0

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. Votes: 0

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. Votes: 0

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. Votes: 0

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. Votes: 0

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside. Votes: 0

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) Votes: 0

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth. Votes: 0

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you. Votes: 0

Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! Votes: 0

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. Votes: 0

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth. Votes: 0

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth. Votes: 0

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true Votes: 0

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty. Votes: 0

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty Votes: 0

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. Votes: 0

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow. Votes: 0

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. Votes: 0

Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising. Votes: 0

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit. Votes: 0

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. Votes: 0

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty. Votes: 0

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. Votes: 0

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room Votes: 0

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. Votes: 0

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous. Votes: 0

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. Votes: 0

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. Votes: 0

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. Votes: 0

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness. Votes: 0

That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth. Votes: 0

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Votes: 0

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair? Votes: 0

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. Votes: 0

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. Votes: 0

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Votes: 0

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. Votes: 0

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way. Votes: 0

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Votes: 0

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe. Votes: 0

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places. Votes: 0

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth. Votes: 0

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? Votes: 0

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light. Votes: 0

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there. Votes: 0

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could. Votes: 0

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is. Votes: 0

Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear. Votes: 0

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' Votes: 0

A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart Votes: 0

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. Votes: 0

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both. Votes: 0

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty. Votes: 0

Truth of beauty not known by anyoneLike a dimple the truth is deep,Every one enjoys the beauty of bodyBut no one enjoys the beauty of nature Votes: 0

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one. Votes: 0

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. Votes: 0

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create. Votes: 0

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures. Votes: 0

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. Votes: 0

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. Votes: 0

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? Votes: 0

Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth. Votes: 0

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! Votes: 0

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth. Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology. Votes: 0

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. Votes: 0

As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. Votes: 0

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010) Votes: 0