Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 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
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
At TransferWise, we started out as - and continue as - idealists. We start with what we can do to make things… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The problem with being idealists about polyamory is that we risk putting ourselves into situations we're not ready for.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would… — Jessie Daniel Ames Copy Share Image
“Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality; Maryam, it seemed, effortlessly reached out from hers and drew… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
