"Beauty is the index of a larger fact…" — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
The best servant does his work unseen.
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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