Ideals Quotes

their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple ...

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism...

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. ...

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but ...

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up a...

...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type...

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things...

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

Our ideals are our better selves.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deser...

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than wi...

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuil...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...