Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison 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
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything… — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better. — Charles Schumer 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
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's… — Studs Terkel 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
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
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