“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.” — Mark Dery Copy Share Image
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"?… — Sherry Jones Copy Share Image
“It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
“10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense,… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
![“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about…” quote by Yuri Bezmenov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/yuri-bezmenov-90074_aim-high_t-he-useful-idiots-the-leftists-who-are_897408.jpg)
