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
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. — Patricia C. Wrede 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
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
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its… — John Buchan 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
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
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
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
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
