#ideals

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#convinces #good #heart #i #i can

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#desire #figure #help #his #ideals

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #completely #cosmic #discoveries #had

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#attacked #attempted #avoid #because #defended

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. ↗

— Aly Khan

#been #christianity #due #extent #great

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom. ↗

— James Martineau

#negligence #philosophy #religion #wisdom #inspirational

The great artist is a slave to his ideals. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#great #his #ideals #slave

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bodies #calls #cherish #determine #dream

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ↗

— David Horowitz

#anywhere #black #blacks #earth #efforts