Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the… — Havelock Ellis
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those… — Jerry Falwell
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire… — James Fenton
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find… — Tim Ferriss
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. — Gustave Flaubert
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. — Gustave Flaubert
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress. — Bruce Forsyth
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. — Gary Hamel
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to… — Edward Hopper
To be an ideal guest, stay at home. — E. W. Howe
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by… — Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. — Victor Hugo
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. — Victor Hugo
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do… — E. Stanley Jones
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. — Tony Judt
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. — Immanuel Kant
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't… — Jay-Z
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way… — Charlie Kaufman
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. — Ellen Key
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic… — Jeffrey Kluger
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it,… — Caroline Knapp
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. — Karl Kraus
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. — Aung San Suu Kyi

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