Quotes About Idealize

#1. 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 are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Richard Wagner

#2. The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

Susan Sontag

#3. It's important to love someone."
"Even if you can't have that person?"
"I think caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if the situation you idealize doesn't happen for you ... I think that anything that gets people through the day is a good thing."
"Like God?"
"Like God.

Katie Crouch

#4. We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Marcia Muller

#5. When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Henry Fuseli

#6. Separation ... though effectual with people of certain humors, is apt to idealize the removed object with others; notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.

Thomas Hardy

#7. His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I'm not with him; but then when I see him again I'm overcome.

Anne Rice

#8. 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 their cultural ancestors.

Edsger Dijkstra

#9. If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

Robert Munsch

#10. We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.

Steven Harrison

#11. Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Benjamin Jowett

#12. 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 to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

Liu Xiaobo

#13. 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 of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

Theodore Parker

#14. Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

Starhawk

#15. Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#16. Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

John Green

#17. We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#18. And was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

R. H. Tawney

#19. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Leo Buscaglia

#20. We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#21. I am not especially unsophisticated about people, and yet I am so inclined to idealize and idolize the few that I am really attached to. I should know better...

Harry Haskell

#22. There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves

Alain De Botton

#24. It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

Peter Ackroyd

#25. 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. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

William J. Clinton

#26. 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 all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

Annette Bening

#27. 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, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

Gerald Weinberg

#28. 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

#29. Rembrandt didn't idealize his subjects. He painted what he saw, which was a mixture of glory and fallenness. He was criticized by his contemporaries for using washerwomen as his models rather than women who looked like Greek goddesses.

Steve Turner

#30. Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

C. A. Bartol

#31. We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

Patrick Hayden

#32. Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

Henri Nouwen

#33. The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Alice Miller

#34. We think about our future selves like different people. We often idealize them, expecting our future selves to do what our present selves cannot manage.

Kelly McGonigal

#35. Fortitude, determination ... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Stephen Lang

#36. People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Zosia Mamet

#37. Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

Nancy Gibbs

#38. I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

Patton Oswalt

#39. What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Francis Herbert Hedge

#40. Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

Mary E. DeMuth

#41. It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Nicholas Sparks

#42. It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

Craig Bruce

#43. A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Diane Kruger

#44. We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#45. What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

Charlotte Le Bon

#46. Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Honore De Balzac