“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” — Albert Einstein

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

— Franz Kafka

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

— Francis Bacon

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty without expression is boring.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth raises against itself barriers that it cannot surmount; but beauty, like a bird, flies over them all.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

— Oscar Wilde

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

— John Ruskin

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a diligent mind.

— Kahlil Gibran

Exuberance is beauty.

—William Blake

The beauty of truth and the beauty of stone are two different things. One opens the door to the immeasurable, the other to the imprisonment of man; one to freedom and the other to the bondage of thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume