(185 quotes found)
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
Albert Einstein
“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood”
George Bernard Shaw
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”
John Calvin
“Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.”
Bhagavad Gita
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
Pope John Paul II
“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.”
Chanakya
“It matters little, she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve."”
Charles Dickens
“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”
B. B. King
“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts”
Francis Bacon Sr.
