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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -- Albert Einstein
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. -- Polykarp Kusch
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. -- Aldous Huxley
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. -- Studs Terkel
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 -- Jaron Lanier
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. -- Robert Falconer
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. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- Reif Larsen
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. -- Theodore Parker
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. -- Carter Heyward
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. -- Grace Paley
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. -- Pablo Neruda
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. -- Isabel Allende
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. -- Dean Koontz
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. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Albert Schweitzer
Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first -- Muriel Spark
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. -- Ovid
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. -- David R. Brower
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. -- Peter Kreeft
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. -- Ernest Holmes
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. -- R. D. Laing
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. -- John Piper
My responsibility is to truth and beauty. -- Amiri Baraka
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. -- Danica McKellar
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Okakura Kakuzo
My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do -- Tony Bennett
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. -- William Penn
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." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Leslie Jamison
...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? -- Brenda Ueland
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. -- James Joyce
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.) -- Susan Neiman
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Laurence J. Peter
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. -- George Bernard Shaw
You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that. -- Eric Christian Olsen
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. -- Shinichi Suzuki
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it. -- Henry Williamson
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. -- Lindsay Wagner
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -- John Keats
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. -- Frank Norris
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. -- Matthew Arnold
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. -- Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. -- Gary Hamel
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. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Janis Ian
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. -- Simone Weil
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. -- Gustave Courbet
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. -- Deepak Chopra
If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer. -- Mark Twain
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family. -- Pope Francis
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. -- Frank Zappa
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. -- Albert Einstein
Truth is beauty -- Lisi Harrison
Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- John Keats
Truth reveals itself in beauty. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lying - remembering beauty in truth. -- Beatrice Sparks
Beauty is the brilliance of truth. -- Saint Augustine
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. -- Robert Gilfillan
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade. -- Charles Bukowski
The beauty of truth is in its simplicity. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule. -- Raheel Farooq
Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost. -- Nicanor Parra
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. -- George Polya
Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty. -- Judith Rich Harris
Beauty can only fight the truth for so long... -- Soman Chainani
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. -- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself. -- Eric Gill
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. -- Richard P. Feynman
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. -- Bertrand Russell
Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Michelle Sagara
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness. -- Vincent McNabb
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things. -- Marianne Faithfull
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. -- John Steinbeck
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. -- George Bernard Shaw
The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants. -- Marc Marcel
Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty. -- Chrisette Michele
Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought. -- Robert Williams Buchanan
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. -- Nadine Gordimer
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself. -- Eric Gill
Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty. -- Pope Francis
Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity. -- Michel Houellebecq
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. -- Albert Einstein
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. -- Laurence Sterne
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. -- Mahlon Hoagland
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. -- Grace Aguilar
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. -- Eric Gill
The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating. -- Paulo Coelho
Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself. -- Anthony Zee
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
... the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.... -- Esther M. Friesner
I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. -- Juan Pablo Di Pace
Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her. -- Mark Akenside
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled. -- Barry Long
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomlin
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. -- Edgar Lee Masters
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip. -- Ram Dass
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. -- John Pierrakos
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. -- Brenda Ueland
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. -- Lawrence Durrell
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. -- George R. R. Martin
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. -- Matt Haig
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not -- John Keats
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done? -- Lily Tomlin
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty. -- John Keats
The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty -- Michael Moorcock

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