“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein
“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
“We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.”
― Helen Keller
“Pacing doesn’t matter if you are sacrificing mastery and
love for truth, goodness, and beauty.”
― Sarah MacKenzie, Teaching From Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide
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Truth...
“Our job is to integrate these various truths into the whole truth, which should be our only loyalty.” Abraham Maslow
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
― Maya Angelou
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire
“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
― Gautama Buddha
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
― Thomas Jefferson,
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
― Blaise Pascal
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
― Gautama Buddha
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
― Albert Einstein
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
― John Locke
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein
Goodness... (virtue)
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
― Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― Albert Einstein
“She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Beauty...
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucius
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems
“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
― Emily Dickinson
“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol
“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
― John Keats
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
― Dante Alighieri
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
-- Michelangelo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
Michelangelo
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo
"My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness."
-- Michelangelo
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(self)
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates
“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
― Helen Keller
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