Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.” — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism,… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
My father was possessed of an extraordinary romantic idealism, an unwavering belief in certain principles. He was always talking about the past.… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
“We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--despair from which only the love of our… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in… — William James Copy Share Image
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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