I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music.… — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I… — Mary Doria Russell 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
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“Because there is no such thing as people who just believe in ideas. Once people get ideas, they want to act on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck 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
“Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called "idealists"—a word which has a different meaning… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The idealists and relativists are not mentally sick. They prove their soundness by living their lives according to the very notions of… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was naive (February 23) because it did not know the end of the story. It did not know what… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Thus we kept on like true idealists, rejecting the evidence of our senses” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
