Unattainable Quotes

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

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.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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.

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.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

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.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

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.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.