Ideal Quotes

1406 quotes by 1036 authors

The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened… — Anagarika Govinda
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or… — Mahatma Gandhi
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred de Vigny
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all. — Miranda Richardson
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful… — Herbert Hoover
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the… — Rene Dubos
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Vilayat Inayat Khan
The actual well seen is ideal. — Thomas Carlyle
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell
Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. — Brian Tracy
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. — Walter Lippmann
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard

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