To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university,… — Michel Onfray 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
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
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
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
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
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
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I… — Conor Oberst 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
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce 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
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 German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and… — Frederick C. Beiser 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
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse… — Ray Dalio 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
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,… — Thomas Huxley 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
