Idealize Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
— Leo Buscaglia
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There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.…
— William J. Clinton
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
— John Green
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It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to…
— Lynn Coady
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While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
— Debashis Chatterjee
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We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.
— Patrick Hayden
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,…
— Gerald Weinberg
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
— Zosia Mamet
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To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.
— Martin Amis
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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
— Aldous Huxley
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true…
— Richard Wagner
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Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
— Henri Nouwen
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All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol…
— Theodore Parker
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My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me…
— Liu Xiaobo
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We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're…
— Annette Bening
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Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His…
— Austin Grossman
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Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother…
— Frank Pittman
Who Wrote These Idealize Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 40 Idealize Quotes, led by these top contributors: