We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Many a present-day Alcibiades, who laves all the week in the muddy waters of life, comes on Sundays to cleanse himself in… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
