Beauty Quote by Stuart Rojstaczer

“Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another’s appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The…

— Oscar Wilde

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

— Richard Hofstadter

“To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and Ferraris, their…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“and no race has a monopoly on beauty, on intelligence, on strength”

— Aimé Césaire

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

— Farrah Fawcett

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we…

— Toni Morrison

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its…

— Russell Smith

“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.”

— Frank Tallis

“culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous.”

— Francesca Lia Block