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Quotes About Idols

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
~ Daniel Keyes
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
~ Daniel Keyes
Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
~ Daniel Keyes
InteligenÈ›a ,educaÈ›ia È™i cunoaÈ™terea au devenit niÈ™te idoli veneraÈ›i. Dar È™tiu bine c? toÈ›i aÈ›i pierdut din vedere un lucru: inteligenÈ›a È™i educaÈ›ia care f?r? sentimente omeneÈ™ti nu fac nici cât o ceap? degerat?. Nu m? înÈ›elegeÈ›i greÈ™it. InteligenÈ›a este unul dintre cele mai mari daruri ale omului. Dar de cele mai multe ori c?utarea cunoaÈ™terii exclude c?utarea dragostei.
~ Daniel Keyes
The record is broken and incomplete, not because India ever rested, but because war and the idol-smashing ecstasies of Moslems destroyed uncounted masterpieces of building and statuary, and poverty neglected the preservation of others.
~ Will Durant
A maker of IDOLS is never an idolater.
~ Chinese proverb
I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. Thank god, cut to years later, I won Best New Artist at the Grammys and performed there, and now made a movie with one of my idols -- Cher.
~ Christina Aguilera
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
~ Ellen G. White
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.
~ Rhys Darby
It's great to get to work with your idols.
~ Joel Kinnaman
Growing up, we were in a strict household, so we weren't allowed to have posters of our crushes and stuff on the wall - mine was Cristina Applegate.
~ Jonathan Scott
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.
~ Pope Francis
A perpetual forge of idols.'35 So Calvin had described the human mind.
~ Tom Holland
My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.
~ Tony Dorsett
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
~ John Dyer Baizley
In John's vision of the cosmos, there is no room for gathering around God's throne at one time as one's cosmic center and at another time in the fellowship of idols and their worshipers.
~ Unknown
How tragic and foolish! Yet, people worship these things and say, "That's God.
~ Chuck Smith
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The condition in which the pagan world dwells outside of the special revelation is portrayed in Holy Scripture as darkness, ignorance, self-invented wisdom, and great unrighteousness. The preaching that addresses them is thus a calling to come out of darkness into the light; it is an invitation to be converted from idols and to serve the living and true God.
~ Herman Bavinck
All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
~ Halsey
I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it.
~ Willa Holland
As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.
~ Ralph Hasenhuttl
When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
~ Dimebag Darrell