The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I've written a book entitled 'Islam: the Challenges of Democracy,' because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress… — Confucius Copy Share Image
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love;… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation. — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of… — Sam Dunn Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image