An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist without illusions. [Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
![“I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a…” quote by Jonathan Kozol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/90c/jonathan-kozol-2747_belief_i-always-want-to-tell-these-young-ideali_1115569.jpg)
