Idealism Quotes · Page 9

“This world is filled with critics already; being an encourager is what we need to be.”

— The Idealist Merchant

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

— Albert Schweitzer

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

— D. H. Lawrence

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

— Bertrand Russell

I have put pragmatism ahead of idealism and understand that concessions are necessary in a negotiation.

— Suella Braverman

“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture”

— James Davison Hunter

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they…

— Helen Keller

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor…

— Richard P. Feynman

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to…

— Tom Stoppard

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved…

— Christopher Dawson

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital…

— Richard Schmid

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which…

— Albert Schweitzer

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music.…

— Nikolai Grozni

“Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the…

— Douglas Portway

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the…

— George Berkeley

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty…

— Robert Hughes

One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness…

— Lee Hsien Loong

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.…

— Amos Oz

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good…

— Dick Morris

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.”

— A.J. Darkholme

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

— Richard M. Nixon

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

— Arthur Scargill

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

— Joshuah Bearman

“Idealism is not a reliable guide to the meaning of Revelation.”

— Mark Hitchcock

“People change, though, especially after they are dead.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

— Aldous Huxley

“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.”

— Bauvard

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

— Don Henley

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism

— Anonymous

“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

— Jonathan Franzen