Best beauty & truth-is Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“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.”

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“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”

Source: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

“It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.”

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Book:George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag

Source: George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“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.”

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Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”

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Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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Author:John Keats

“The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

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Author:Laozi

“Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.”

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Author:George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”

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Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”

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Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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