“Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.”

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?”

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…”

“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.”

“We rarely climb to the highest level of our expectations, because the ascension is limited by wisdom and knowledge.”

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”