Top 56 Beholds Quotes
#1. No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
Wole Soyinka
#2. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
Henry James
#4. For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.
Solange Nicole
#6. As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Albert Schweitzer
#7. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.
Aleister Crowley
#9. They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
William Shakespeare
#10. For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens
#11. I could spend a lifetime
delighting in the image of the Friend
But once my heart beholds the Friend
then the pain becomes more precious
than a thousand delights.
Rumi
#12. Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
Henry Fielding
#13. There is nothing amiss with a little romance. In fact the romantic eye beholds its presence in all things; in a sunset, sun-shower, a child's laughter, or tears. Everywhere one looks, romance abounds.
S.S. Matthews
#14. Woman's love
a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
Helen Rowland
#15. Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
Ellis Peters
#16. As there is one Face above all worlds merely to see which is irrevocable joy, so at the bottom of all worlds that face is waiting whose sight alone is the misery from which none who beholds it can recover.
C.S. Lewis
#17. To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
John Milton
#18. Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
Ovid
#19. The only true voyage of discovery ... would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust
#20. The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
Saadi
#21. The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,
he will presently undervalue the actual object.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
#23. Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high ... ' Long live Scanderbeg.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.
Rumi
#25. The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
Plotinus
#26. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.
James Montgomery
#27. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
#28. Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
George MacDonald
#29. No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
Samuel Johnson
#30. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore
#31. Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster
#32. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
John Dryden
#33. Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
Henry James
#34. Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#36. I must say my heart leaped up, as Jeeves tells me his does when he beholds a rainbow in the sky.
P.G. Wodehouse
#37. Distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.
Virginia Woolf
#38. But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
Homer
#39. In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.64
Jerry Bridges
#40. Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#41. I am the eye with which the Universe / Beholds itself, and knows it is divine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#42. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#43. Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
Aeschylus
#44. There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
Saint Basil
#45. And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Gustave Flaubert
#46. With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward, said
Jim Harrison
#47. Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements - endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart ... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.
Andre Gide
#48. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
Ovid
#50. Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
Rene Descartes
#51. Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
A.B. Simpson
#53. One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.
George MacDonald
#54. Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.
William C. Bryant
#55. The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
Joseph Campbell
