As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.” — Étienne Gilson 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
“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“The idealist view has no interpretive anchor that helps hold Revelation together. This view is extremely reader-centered and not tied to the… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the… — Benjamin B. Ferencz Copy Share Image
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I think my mother has always understood what a romantic idealist I am, so she's never had trouble supporting what might be… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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