Quote by Carl Schurz
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz

Other quotes by Carl Schurz

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbors rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. – Carl Schurz

Category:
Equality
Read Quote

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. – Carl Schurz

Category:
Loyalty
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Ideals
category

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. – Henry L. Mencken

Category:
Ideals

Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Ideals

Some people never have anything except ideals. – E.W. Howe

Category:
Ideals

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Ideals

Random Quotes

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. – Jesse Helms

Category:
Society

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Conviction

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married. – Nicole Appleton

Category:
Marriage

You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Hollywood