Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way… — Walter Cronkite
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal. — Unknown Author
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that… — Frederick Lenz
If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you… — Frederick Lenz
In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an… — Frederick Lenz
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal… — Roderick Nash
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual… — Dan Savage
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically… — Steven Chu
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those… — James Rickards
You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept.… — Ken Kutaragi
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the… — Hooman Majd
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless… — Marcus Brigstocke
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… — D. H. Lawrence
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or… — Pierre Trudeau
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as… — C.S. Lewis
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something… — C.S. Lewis
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… — Paul Valery
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,… — William Hazlitt
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. — Karl Marx

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