Idealize Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. — Leo Buscaglia
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. — John Green
Itâ€™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
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
We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. — Patrick Hayden
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
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
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. — Zosia Mamet
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against clichÃ©. Not just clichÃ©s of the pen but clichÃ©s of the mind and clichÃ©s of the heart. — Martin Amis
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
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved. — Sogyal Rinpoche
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
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others — Henri Nouwen
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
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
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
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
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

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