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

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck
US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Helen Rowland
(1876 - 1950)

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Sir Francis Bacon
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust, The War with Catiline
Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC)

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies
Italian humanist, lyric poet, & scholar (1304 - 1374)

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoir

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

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