Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.