Symmetry Quotes

Reality favors symmetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“What about the Symmetry?!”

— Atsushi Ohkubo

You can't chop down a symmetry

— Jane Siberry

Symmetry is key.

— Death The Kid

“Symmetry, by surrounding us, makes itself invisible.”

— Hugh Howey

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

— Susan Messing

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

— George Herbert

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

— Tom Robbins

The mile has a classic symmetry…It's a play in four acts.

— John Landy

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

— Larry Wall

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

— Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

— Louis de Bernieres

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

— Khaled Hosseini

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“How truly hard is to keep up Symmetry between Head, Heart & tongue?”

— Manjula Jyothiprakash

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

— Edouard Manet

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

— Kerry James Marshall

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

— George Bernard Shaw

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills…

— Dave Van Ronk

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of…

— Werner Heisenberg

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these…

— Tom Shadyac

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule…

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…

— Victor Hugo

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have…

— Edouard Manet

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved…

— Helen Reddy

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry…

— John Updike

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate…

— Katherine Applegate

“With a digital display having few pixels, symmetries are common but there is very little meaning because the image is very course…

— Rick Delmonico

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…

— Octavio Paz

The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings…

— John Paul Caponigro

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small…

— Aristotle

Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also…

— Travis Rice

Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was…

— Karen Marie Moning

Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…

— Martin Gardner

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Sometimes we are mush mouths because we like symmetry.”

— Kory Stamper

“Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.”

— Julie Metz

“Our obsession with symmetry...”

— Sabah Carrim