John Arbuthnot Quotes

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.