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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. -- Aldous Huxley
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. -- Irving Howe
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. -- George Wald
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals. -- Kit Williams
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. -- William Osler
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. -- Emile Durkheim
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself. -- Martha Wainwright
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. -- Haim Ginott
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. -- Lytton Strachey
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable. -- Robert Ardrey
Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable. -- Kara Goucher
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. -- C. S. Lewis
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. -- Victor Hugo
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable -- Jodi Picoult
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable -- Henry Miller
Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become. -- Meredith Vieira
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -- Philip Stanhope
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. -- William Bolitho
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us. -- Vladimir Nabokov
If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible. -- Russell Crowe
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
My dream was never to become this unattainable star. -- Tove Lo
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. -- Dorothea Lange
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. -- Jennifer Aniston
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls. -- Lorde
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. -- Jonny Wilkinson
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones. -- Dan Deacon
Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing. -- Amy Heckerling
When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal. -- Sarah Gadon
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. -- Samantha Barks
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that. -- Jamie Dornan
I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain. -- Karan Johar
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly. -- Kara Lindsay
I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight. -- Stephanie Klein
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -- Philip Stanhope
I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not being this unattainable thing. I think doing sports and riding motorcycles has made me more approachable and more real and down to earth. -- Marisa Miller
Attain the unattainable. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible. -- Barack Obama
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal -- William Lane Craig
Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not. -- Stephen Watson
The good God would not inspire unattainable desires. -- Therese of Lisieux
Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. -- Nikki Sixx
Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause. -- Alma Powell
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable. -- George Soros
Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion. -- Lisa Genova
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. -- Ken Goldberg
Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity. -- Michael Johnson
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence! -- Vince Lombardi
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it. -- Seth Godin
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. -- Jodi Picoult
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity. -- Gilbert Highet
You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable. -- Adamo Macri
Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation"¦.wrong priorities and unattainable targets -- J. R. D. Tata
Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream? -- Joaquin Phoenix
Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try. -- Kiera Cass
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. -- Joyce Kilmer
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. -- Ralph Barton Perry
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. -- Bayard Taylor
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. -- BrenÃ© Brown
It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere" -- Samantha Barks
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature. -- Nocturnus Libertus
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. -- Aldous Huxley
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible. -- Heraclitus
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. -- Muhammad Ali
The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos. -- Albert Einstein
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether. -- Michael Shermer
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. -- Georges Rodenbach
...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back. -- Janette Rallison
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here. -- Oswald Chambers
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art". -- David Shields
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream. -- Brenda Strong
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future. -- Russell L. Ackoff
Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric. -- George Friedman
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. -- Clement Greenberg
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence. -- Ken Robinson
There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me. -- Elsa Barker
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. -- Primo Levi
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need. -- David Gemmell
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We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher. -- Herb Brooks
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. -- H. L. Mencken
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body... -- Kiley MacLeod
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning -- Ludwig van Beethoven
If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable. -- Jacob Bronowski
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. -- Dorothea Lange
The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever. -- George Augustus Henry Sala
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. -- Albert Einstein
There's a gate, in every attempt to reach its highest peak, intelligence is the main objective, IQ is its force.....unattainable for many, the beauty is still to be revealed, or is it"C -- C.Granillo
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place. -- Helmut Schoeck

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