“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
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson 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
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver… — Elisabeth Rohm 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
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow… — Sal Khan 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 am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons,… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to… — Garry Wills 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
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier… — Peter Dreier 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
