Idealist Quotes

God save me from idealists.

— Jim Butcher

I'm a cynical idealist.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm an idealist.

— Bobby Cannavale

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

— Mason Cooley

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

— Albert Camus

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

— George Carlin

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

— Roger Moore

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

— George Carlin

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

— Mark Clifton

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

— Malcolm De Chazal

“An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was.”

— James S.A. Corey

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

— Swami Vivekananda

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

— Josiah Royce

“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.”

— Carl Sandburg

“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

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

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

— Kristin Hannah

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

— Scott Belsky

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist…

— Henry Miller

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships -…

— Mary McCarthy

In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who…

— Judith Butler

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of…

— Michael Savage

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

“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you…

— Madeleine Albright

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and…

— Jack Kerouac

[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

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal…

— Harper Lee

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take…

— Anurag Kashyap

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not…

— Ayn Rand

There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the…

— Hal Borland

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

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

— Irving Layton

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

— Henry Louis Mencken

No one more cynical than an idealist.

— Tanith Lee

“We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I am an idealist, which can be tiring.

— Hussein Chalayan