The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“The state of being prosperous is equivalent to labor and hard work put in. Be Persistent! Be A Hustler!” — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It was realism that told Kelly he couldn’t fix all the problems of the world; it was idealism that told him his… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men… — Jim Butcher 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
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Traffic slowed as they entered Fort Washakie with everyone rubbernecking the spirited powwow taking place in an empty field just off the… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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