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
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
— Ovid
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
— Oscar Wilde
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Form follows beauty.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
— Orison Swett Marden
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
— Ori Gersht
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
— Oliver Goldsmith
Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
— Octavia Spencer
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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.
— Northrop Frye
The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great - all of those things have served me well.
— Nnamdi Asomugha
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.
— Nikki Sixx
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
— Nigel Barker
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
— Ouida
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
— Olivia Wilde
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
— Oliver Stone
I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
— Ofra Strauss
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
The goals are the moments of beauty that the fans come for.
— Nuno Espirito Santo
For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.
— Normani Kordei
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
— Nikolai Gogol
This is all me. That’s why all my products come in this dragon egg literally ‘cause I’m like, I laid an egg for you, girl. Every little last detail is so Nikita and extra and wild. I’m creating things I’ve always wanted to see in the beauty industry.
— Nikita Dragun
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
— Ossie Davis
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
— Oriana Fallaci
I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
— Olivia Colman
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
— Oliver Platt
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
— Odette Annable
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy.
— Novala Takemoto
Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
— Nolan Bushnell
I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.
— Nina Dobrev
The first beauty product most Dutchies get is Max Factor mascara. But a lot of people here still only buy mascara and a little lip gloss.
— NikkieTutorials
I think the most powerful beauty is representative of uniqueness and individuality of every person.
