To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons,… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...' — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.” — Mik Everett Copy Share Image
