"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."
Read quote
10 likes
Idols quotes
Idols
559 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Idols
Browse quotes that often appear alongside idols — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Idols quotes (page 3 of 28)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
Read quote
9 likes
"In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders."
Read quote
9 likes
"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here."
Read quote
9 likes
"Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place."
Read quote
9 likes
"Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong."
Read quote
9 likes
"I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father."
Read quote
8 likes
"Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing."
Read quote
8 likes
"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
Read quote
8 likes
"I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry."
Read quote
8 likes
"Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly."
Read quote
8 likes
"Pharrell has always been my style idol."
Read quote
8 likes
"The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish."
Read quote
8 likes
"Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators."
Read quote
8 likes
"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."
Read quote
8 likes
"A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols."
Read quote
7 likes
"Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol."
Read quote
7 likes
"And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols."
Read quote
7 likes
"Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things."
Read quote
7 likes